"Tales of the South Pacific" Quotes
"Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener is a collection of interconnected stories about the lives and challenges of American soldiers and locals in the South Pacific during World War II.
fiction | 344 pages | Published in 1986
Quotes
They will overcome because they are brave, they are loyal and they are resilient.
We are dealing, you must remember, with a vast amount of human material.
The nights are long, the nights are lonely, but the nights are ours.
The sound of the waves is never far away.
The war will be won by the side that best understands the psychology of the other.
In this war, you see, there are no medals for valor.
All through the night the stars shone with an intensity that was almost frightening.
Each island was a world unto itself.
There is always that moment in battle when you are most alive.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
