“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”
“There is no war where only one side is the bad guy.”
“The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.”
“If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.”
“I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.”
“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”