Officer Zitate

I used to think I could understand everything and express everything. Or almost everything. I remember when I was writing my book about the war in Afghanistan, Zinky Boys, I went to Afghanistan and they showed me some of the foreign weapons that had been captured from the Afghan fighters. I was amazed at how perfect their forms were, how perfectly a human thought had been expressed. There was an

officer standing next to me and he said, "If someone were to step on this Italian mine that you say is so pretty it looks like a Christmas decoration, there would be nothing left of them but a bucket of meat. You'd have to scrape them off the ground with a spoon." When I sat down to write this, it was the first time I thought, "Is this something I should say?" I had been raised on great Russian

literature, I thought you could go very very far, and so I wrote about that meat. But the Zone—it's a separate world, a world within the rest of the world—and it's more powerful than anything literature has to say.

Officer Becerra: "Ich hab denen gesagt 'ohne Sirenen'! Wie auch immer. Eine Dame hat wegen ihrer Katze auf dem Dach angerufen."
Herrmann: "Ist aber ne ulkige Katze."
Officer Becerra: "Er wollte die Katze holen, aber die ist wieder rein und er hängt da fest."
Officer Tackett: "Du bist tot, Becerra! Ich stech dich während du schläfst ab."
Officer Becerra: "Klar, wenn

du das sagst Tackett. Er hat mir verboten anzurufen."
Casey: "Halt dich fest, Tackett, wir holen dich da runter."
Officer Tackett: "Ich brauch eure hilfe nicht!"
Mouch: "Na dann abmrsch, Leute!"

Gabby: "Warum hast du heute nicht neben Mike gesessen? Ich dachte zwischen euch beiden würde was laufen."
Susan: "Hab ich eigentlich auch gedacht. Ich kriege widersprüchliche Signale."
Gabby: "Ich sag dir wer gar nicht widersprüchlich war: dieser sexy Officer Thompson. Der hat dich dauernd angestarrt."
Susan: "Das ist dir aufgefallen?"
Gabby: "Schätzchen glaub mir:

Wenn sie mich nicht anstarren fällt mir das auf."