“I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.”

“I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.”

“We kind of fell into one another, not even realizing it was happening.”

“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”

“Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.”

“My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the faces of their lost sons when they look at me. They will want answers, demand to know how I survived. And what do I tell them? That I huddled like a baby inside my tent while their killer beckoned me forth for one last stand?”

“It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.”