Courtney S’s Reviews > Invasion > Status Update

“They were full of piss and vinegar and wisecracks.”

“I need somebody to care for, and maybe somebody who would be waiting for me when I got home…I was going to have to learn to be a civilian one day.”

“‘I am a shadow…there is nothing to a shadow. I am not a man anymore.’”

“I had always thought…that you grew from the inside, that the person you were had magically come into being as you grew and absorbed your surroundings. But what surrounded us in the weeks over there could not be absorbed. My eyes saw, my body felt, but I didn’t want to see or feel, and so I turned away.”

“‘There’s no use in worrying yourself about milk that’s already spilled or whether somebody else’s pancakes are going to rise.’”