"The Ghost Road" Quotes

We don't belong in this theatre of war. We've been cast out. We have no connecting spirit with anything that happened here.

Shellshock is like a millstone around your neck. No one wants to admit they're carrying it, and you can't get rid of it.

You put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's head.

War memorials are one of the most sentimental and fraudulent aspects of the culture of imperialism.

Men have half the world and still say women should be grateful for the crumbs.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Is bravery some uniform quality that underlies two completely different behaviors?

Silence is the greatest ally of any war.

Sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right.

We know so much about dying, and so little about living.