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21 " it’s better to light a single candle than to sit and curse the dark. "
― Barbara Nickless , Blood on the Tracks (Sydney Rose Parnell, #1)
22 " Can you let war split a man in two, then turn around and expect the pieces to fit back together? I "
23 " Come home soon, "
24 " 7th Street Bridge. "
25 " realized, to his surprise, that even constant pain left room for love. "
26 " Smack between Shawnee "
27 " Face like that, you don’t need to do a damn thing, "
28 " I ordered Clyde to guard while I retrieved Frankie’s .45 from under the couch, verified there wasn’t a round in the chamber, then shoved the gun into my belt. I "
29 " Ask most people in America what “normal” is, and they’ll tell you it’s a roof and three squares a day. It’s a decent job and good health and a marriage that’s going along just fine, thanks. It’s the middle-class version of the American Dream. What no one wants to admit is that this idea of normal isn’t really normal at all. It’s a fantasy. Normal is whatever we’ve gotten used to in our own private universe. "
30 " Time and again, he imagined climbing the crumbling pylons of the bridge, folding his uniform neatly over the rail, and stepping naked onto the highway to let that roar take him down. After fifteen days, and with his mind made up, he was standing on the bridge when his phone rang. His woman, calling from Denver. "
31 " Here the city smelled of old things, like nature gone quiet. Wet earth and decaying leaves and the thin, waiting scent of dormant trees. He "
32 " tenth. But his woman loved him. Loved him even with this face. Loved him even when he called her dumb and crazy and all the other shit he’d thrown at her when she said she loved him still, loved him before "
33 " woman’s choice of weapons is often poison, and Elise had been "
34 " The snow flew sideways, as if someone had tipped the world. Barns "
35 " Someone once told me you can take the boy out of the war. But not the war out of the man. "
36 " The ravens of war always come home to roost. "
37 " Sleet had changed to snow, which fell steadily as I drove. White powder filled the hollows in the land, erased the gutters, piled on the fir trees like lines of cocaine. Everything—buildings, sidewalks, lights—turned blurry as snow enshrouded the city. Denver went silent under the soft, murderous weight. "
38 " smoking and dozing next to the slow roll of the Los Angeles River. Through the misery of dry-heat days and blue-neon nights, he listened to the roar of traffic overhead and wondered how a man could shed the perilous weight of memory. Time and again, he imagined climbing the crumbling pylons of the bridge, folding his uniform neatly over the rail, and stepping naked onto the highway to let that roar take him down. After fifteen days, and with his mind made up, he was standing on the bridge when "
39 " again, I have to fix things.” “You "
40 " In war, loyalty is one thing you can count on. This is what the Marine Motto Semper Fidelis, is all about: Always Faithful. "