Igor Zavyalov

“And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that kept me going was the Marines I served with and the thought of coming home, I started feeling like I wanted to go back. Because fuck all this.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

“God, am I like the rest after all?"—So he used to think starting awake at night—"Am I like the rest?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

“She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a seven-month deployment, is not pregnant enough.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment