Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

Paolo Bacigalupi
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  3. You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

  4. Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend.

  5. Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

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