“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”

“If you ever mess with my daughter again, it will be the last mistake you make!”

“If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.”

“Irony sucks, you know?"Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.”

“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”

“It's not running away when you're going back home.”

“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”