Angela Ricketts > Quotes

“Above everything else, beyond the long hardships, one out- come is the most invaluable. The sisterhoods. The lifelong friends and bonds that will never lessen. Years can go by, and I will pick up with each of those sisters as if a single day hasn’t passed. Only we can truly understand one another; not even our husbands can fully grasp what we’ve been through with each other and how ironclad those bonds are.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those faces, I see that the seemingly repugnant behavior wasn’t so atrocious after all. Everything is forgiv- able. Everything we said and did and felt was magnified by the pres- ence of something we couldn’t control, and that fact definitely brought out the crazy. Each of us will carry a balance of regret and pride for the rest of our lives.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“It’s the wide variation of women in our little shared petri dish that makes our lives never boring. Really all that we have in common is we each fell in love with a dude in uniform. The rest of it is a wild card. . . . Each of us trying to get through the day, the deployment, and the time in between.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do it because it’s what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It’s our battle rhythm.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“The placement of a perfect perfumed turd passive-aggressive zinger is equal to the flush of an orgasm. It is sublime.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“It’s still his favorite dish, though. War and rancid meat.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife