Susan Thombs

“All right then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is still much pain left, after all these years, from the Vietnam War. But this I know. I would rather to have had you for 21 years, and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all.”
― Bernard Edelman, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

“Fate goes ever as fate must.”
― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf

“It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders.”
― Tim O'Brien