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“All creatures can experience pestilence, famine, and death—but war, true war, that is a singularly human experience.”
― Laura Thalassa, War

“because he looks annoyingly pleased. His eyes are like honey when he says, “Stay with me, Miriam.” His hand flexes against my side. “Sleep in my tent. Make your weapons. Argue with me.”
― Laura Thalassa, War

“Loss is a wound that never heals. Never never never. It scabs over, and for a time you can almost forget it’s there, but then something—a smell, a sound, a memory—will split that wound right open, and you’ll be reminded again that you’re not whole. That you’ll never fully be whole again.”
― Laura Thalassa, War

“Dear God,” I breathe. From the earth, the dead rise.”
― Laura Thalassa, War