Andrew Lafleche > Quotes

“Even a decade returned home I see
the soldier stepping wide, his demise
Undo me to renew, take me away to
some far away place, the eternal life”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“There are two men
I'll never meet
he who preaches
Christ
and believes;
he who
goes to war
void longing death”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“How come we don’t have any powerhouse couples like Bonnie and Clyde or Paul and Karla anymore?”
― Andrew Lafleche, A Pardonable Offence

“Real are the tears cried when
someone dies and
supposedly goes there, but we
don't really
believe that, else”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“Fake another all is well and with
you and
Fake all over again just like
everybody else.”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“Marine disciples set a twirl, fretting the swell;
this was not
how it was supposed to go, one of those trips
must squint to see
the shore, too far gone to hear a-scream-from or
a-shout-to, even if
the winds did calm down, every man doing his
own bit of saving,
under his breath of course our Father who is in
heaven, hallowed
be-when Christ on the water, strolling abso-
lutely nonchalant,
waves nipping His heals, T'm here boys, don't be
afraid, just believe.”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“I picked at something that was edging from the mattress and discovered a pack of matches. Its label read, ‘Made in Victory Russia.’ Remnants of a war-torn past; a torch that had now been handed to us.”
― Andrew Lafleche, No Diplomacy: Musings of an Apathetic Soldier

“Ever sanctified truth:
Your old self,
What a new life will cost you.”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“I cannot let him see me cry in this place,
even
though I've come to learn that being a
man
isn't the ability to hold back tears
rather,
understanding the things in life which
mat-
ter
most; the things that, when lost, will
make
you weep”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“lies least are
truth's façade”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“Church always feels like
Vegas to me:
A lot of something
About nothing”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“and so, we joke
and we laugh to keep from
screaming
or worse- because it will get
worse”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“too many channels
too many words
too many memories
I don't own any of it
it all owns me
the memories especially.
it's even possible
to remember
things that never
happened
which is sometimes
better than
remembering
the things that have.”
― Andrew Lafleche, Shameless

“Fake everything in order just like
our parents did
when we knew the truth but forget
it now.”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“When young men become readers, they become better men.”
― Andrew Lafleche, Ride

“Growing up is dying before its
time -
whose is anyone's guess”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“She said terrible things in
beautiful
ways. Might be how everybody
tells lies.”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“A woman loved is always nearby.
even when she's only gone”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac

“the sun doesn't scare the shadows away
the light casts these tethered crude images onto
a space to be trampled by another's step”
― Andrew Lafleche

“The desert sun vanished behind the Ghar.
We sat near each other, eyes trained
scanning-
Left to right, right to left... over our
arcs;
Neither of US spoke, both our fingers ready
on the trigger- beyond sight a mortar
detonated
where aimed.
One of theirs. On target, or not;
We couldn't tell.
Anxious for morning.
The rising sun, the Arabic prayer”
― Andrew Lafleche, MedEvac