“The hands of a clock will find their way home.”

“Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home.”

“I don't want to fight," she whispered. "Just come home.”

“His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try. He watched his son with heavy-lidded eyes. Eddie, after struggling to find even one sentence to say, did the only thing he could think of to do: He held up his hands and showed his father his grease-stained fingertips.”

“I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.”

“You can find something truly important in a minute...”

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”