Memorable Quotes from Anson Boon
1 quoteUrgent Mission to Prevent Dawn Attack
Sepoy Jondalar
So, where are you going?
Schofield
I have to get to the Second Devons, just past Écoust.
Sepoy Jondalar
Why?
Schofield
They're attacking at dawn. I have to stop them.
Private Malky
How come?
Schofield
They're walking into a trap.
Private Cooke
How many?
Schofield
Sixteen hundred.
Private Cooke
Jesus.
Private Butler
Why did they send you on your own?
Schofield
They didn't. There were two of us.
Private Rossi
So now it's down to you.
Schofield
Yes.
Private Cooke
You'll never make it.
Schofield
Yes, I will. Thank you.
[Butler hands him a bottle of whisky]
Privatve Rossi
Look at it. Fucking look at it. Three years fightin over this. We should've just let the bastards keep it. I mean, who machine guns cows?
[noticing dead cattle in the fields]
Private Malky
Huns with extra bullets.
Privatve Rossi
Bastards.
Sepoy Jondalar
Clever. They know if they don't shoot the cow, you will eat it.
Privatve Rossi
Still bastards.
Private Malky
Yeah, it's not even our bloody country.
Private Butler
How long gone do you reckon they are?
Sepoy Jondalar
Why? Worried we'll catch up to them?
Private Butler
Yeah, right. Be a bloody miracle at this rate.
[chuckles]
Private Cooke
They are probably right around the next corner.
Privatve Rossi
Piss off, no they're not.
Private Cooke
Why don't they just bloody well give up? Eh? Don't they wanna to go home?
Privatve Rossi
They hate their wives and mothers... and Germany must be a shit hole.
Private Cooke
They're retreating... they're miles back. We've got em on the ropes at least.
Sepoy Jondalar
No. We don't.
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