Quotes by Samuel Brown

“I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.””

“Bullets is worth more than food, the girl said, and we can’t eat gunstock.””

“I guess I’m just sad is all.You and me alike, but sad don’t get the dishes done.””

“I heard a lot of things I know ain’t true and I seen a lot of things ain’t supposed to be true but was, and I tell you something girl, I believe they is a Hell.””

“One pit held the tangled severed legs of men, blood caked over kneecaps or shredded thigh muscle. Another pit held a confusion of forearms and hands. They were the graves of amputations – he’d seen them in the field, behind the surgical tent where the screams echoed long after their issuing mouths had closed unconscious.””

“Me and her, we know death same as you, we stabbed plenty a man our ownselves. So you come for us you better kill us outright and not mess about with no fool games like you talk, cause ain’t neither one of us would leave you alive.””

“The plague, it seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.””