Kristin

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

“I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery. The dominoes of moments, lined up symmetrically, then tumbling backward against the hazy and unsure push of cause, showed only that a fall is every object's destiny. It is not enough to say what happened. Everything happened. Everything fell.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds