Rhonda

“And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said.
Weren't those things the costs of war, too?”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: “You aren’t where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren’t where you should be.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax