Helen Picca > Quotes

“I remembered my own 'past' life, buying into the whole success myth, running on that hamster wheel and going nowhere, except from pleasure to pleasure, to new things, new titles, more accomplishments, wrapped up in my egocentric world of superficiality.”
― Helen Picca, From the Hamster Wheel to Happiness in 10 Easy Steps

“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights to be won. When the anti-war public sentiment was strong, as it was during the Vietnam war, our brave soldiers came home to expressions of disdain and revulsion instead of the respect and honor they deserved. But perhaps the ultimate betrayal for veterans, who willingly risked their lives when their government asked, was making them fight to prove their sicknesses and disabilities were caused by the war in order to receive the free medical treatment they needed, or to be compensated. These were the worst indignities of war.”
― Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West

“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.”
― Helen Picca, The Last Frontier of the Fading West