“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
“Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.”
“I see you have added a colored ribbon to your hair Master McArthur. Do you have an assortment of different color ribbons at home: yellow, white, pink, blue to match your pretty blue eyes?”
“...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.”
“Memory is a magpie after chips of colored glass and ribbon rather than the upright accuracy of objective sequence.”
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”