"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."
"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."
"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."
"When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."