I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.
Happiness [is] only real when shared
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Jon Krakauer
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
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Deb Caletti
I may not always be with you But when we're far apart Remember you will be with me Right inside my heart
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Marc Wambolt
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
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Stieg Larsson
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes .. . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
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Melina Marchetta
More Quotes By Clint Van Winkle
Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war–peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, tells you to turn over, think about home.
I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.
Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.
Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
