Fallen Angels Quotes

I was scared. My mouth was going dry and I could see that Peewee was scared, too. Jenkins was crying. It made me feel a little better to see him crying like that. (2.134)

What I was thinking about was that I had to get up every morning and dry the clothes I had washed the night before by putting them on the oven door, to have something to wear to high school. How wa...

"The way I figure it, we got to stick together over here." He had three rings on the hand he waved in the air. "I can't trust no whitey to watch my back when the deal goes down." (2.29)

The village stunk. You could smell it as you got near. There were huts laid out about fifteen meters from each other. Some were fairly large. There were people in the village walking around, some w...

My plans, maybe just my dreams really, had been to go to college, and to write like James Baldwin. All the other guys in the neighborhood thought I was going to college. I wasn't, and the army was...

"I got a letter from Virginia Union." A brother we called Brew sat on a footlocker next to Lieutenant Carroll. His real name was Brewster, so I could see where Brew came from. "They said I can prob...

"…Captain Stewart is the one eligible." "Eligible for what?" "For major," Sergeant Simpson said. "And his best chance of making it is while he over here. His tour is up the fifteenth day of March...

I saw Brunner pocket a small statue from one of the huts. I told him about it and he gave me the finger. "Maybe you'll be a better dude when you come back in your next life," I said. "Who knows, co...