“They like the idea of recusing women. […] Everyone hates the bloody army till someone needs rescuing, then we're all bloody heroes and white knights.”

“Bloody music. I hate the way it infiltrates.”

“A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me."
"And what would you have done differently?”

“Everyone is so bloody keen on me thinking all of a sudden. It's not what I do.”

“Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'
'Your God slipped up. She should have created just one sex, women, and arranged for reproduction by cloning.”

“And congratulations to Lewis. It's good that someone finally beat bloody Vettel”

“I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!

--Mat Cauthon”

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.”

“You're a light company, and that means you can go where other Soldier's can't. It makes you an elite. You know what that means? It means you're the best men in the bloody army, and right now the army needs its best men. It needs you.”