“There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.”— Chinelo Okparanta Related Quotes “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”— Randall Jarrell “Don’t worry about the war. It’s all over but the shooting.”– Samuel Goldwyn “War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”– Sophocles