“ It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid. Pat Frank
“ The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County. Thus the lights went out, and i… Pat Frank
“ He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more. Pat Frank
“ It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education. Pat Frank
“ Randy knew he wasn't an alcoholic because an alcoholic craved liquor. He never craved it. He just drank for pleasure and the most pleasurable of all drinks was the first one on a crisp winter morning.… Pat Frank
“ Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose. Pat Frank
“ I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are h… Pat Frank
“ There’s an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general. Pat Frank
“ His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, su… Pat Frank
“ Now at this hour, when the cirrus clouds stretched like crimson ribbons high across the southwest sky, in such a hush that not even a playful eddy dared stir moss or palm fronds, the day died in calm… Pat Frank
“ [He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in… Pat Frank
“ 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the peop… Pat Frank
“ When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the ea… Pat Frank
“ Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you’re got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is Pat Frank
“ It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living. Pat Frank
“ A man who has been shaken by a two-ton blockbuster has a frame of reference. He can equate the impact of an H-bomb with his own experience, even though the H-bomb blast is a million times more powerfu… Pat Frank
