“No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.”

Gary D. Schmidt

Gary D. Schmidt - “No one ever comes back from Vietnam...” 1

Similar quotes

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”

Paulo Coelho
Read more

“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Pieces of her in Vietnam, some in this place of bone. She brought the letter to her nose. The smell of Vietnam: a mix of jungle and wetness and spices and rot. A smell she hadn't realized she missed.”

Tatjana Soli
Read more

“Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”

Paulo Coelho
Read more

“My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago.Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.”

Meg Cabot
Read more

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

Louise Erdrich
Read more