But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

Everyone has a price, ” she said.“But clearly not everyone has a soul,

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.

Fine, " he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

The way things work / is that eventually / something catches.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.