"There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared."
- Melissa Seligman
"Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him."
"As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is."
"I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I'..."
- Jason Christopher Hartley
"The Crazy feeling builds and builds. It never stops, it never ends, there is no relief."
- Brian Castner
"Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home."
- Clint Van Winkle
"The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left."
- Matthew J. Hefti
"I did exactly what you told me to do, Nick. Didn't you tell me to just write the stupid book already? And that even doing the worst thing on the planet had to count for something? Well I can't think o..."
"Oh God, what do we do?""Do?" Levi said, looking oddly triumphant, like his plans for the night had finally materialized, Like he had been hoping for some disaster like this to happen so he didn't have..."
"For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do."