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{{quote|''"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war."''|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (epigraph)}}

{{quote|''"There was a little girl. Maybe, eight years old? I dunno. She'd lost both her legs. Just kept staring at them. Little stumps, cauterized by fire somehow. A little girl, all alone, looking at where her legs were, not understanding anything. Just . . . staring. Blank little eyes. Staring."''|''[[~~Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|~~Tiberium Wars]]''}}

{{quote|''"There was a little girl. Maybe, eight years old? I dunno. She'd lost both her legs. Just kept staring at them. Little stumps, cauterized by fire somehow. A little girl, all alone, looking at where her legs were, not understanding anything. Just . . . staring. Blank little eyes. Staring."''|''[[Tiberium Wars]]''}}

{{quote|''"They built Shepard Stadium about 2011 for sports shows. They upgraded it in 2019 as a makeshift shelter in case of ion storms. Capacity was about forty thousand people. Three weeks into [[TW 3]], it was filled with three hundred thousand.''

''They didn't mind. None of them. They were all in black bags."''|'''Anonymous GDI medical worker''', ''[[~~Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|~~Tiberium Wars]]'' }}

''They didn't mind. None of them. They were all in black bags."''|'''Anonymous GDI medical worker''', ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' }}

{{quote|''"We forge futures out of pain and grief, Commander. The computers and the communications officers and the [[EV As]] and the displays only serve to isolate us so we can be inhuman. We're monsters, son. Cold, mechanical, rational monsters, and the only way we win is by being colder, more mechanical, and more rational than the next monster moving his little pieces on the screen. That's how war has been fought since Stalin rolled into the Allies a century ago. You point, you click, and they die. It's how it works."'' |'''Colonel Nick Parker''', ''[[~~Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|~~Tiberium Wars]]'' "Chapter XVIII" }}

{{quote|''"We forge futures out of pain and grief, Commander. The computers and the communications officers and the [[EV As]] and the displays only serve to isolate us so we can be inhuman. We're monsters, son. Cold, mechanical, rational monsters, and the only way we win is by being colder, more mechanical, and more rational than the next monster moving his little pieces on the screen. That's how war has been fought since Stalin rolled into the Allies a century ago. You point, you click, and they die. It's how it works."'' |'''Colonel Nick Parker''', ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' "Chapter XVIII" }}

{{quote|''"If in some smothering dreams you too could pace