Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Philip Caputo
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that...
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that...
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that...
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that...
About This Quote

This quote is used to make a point about the brutality of teenagers. A young man who is nineteen years old is not really a child. He has not gone through childhood in the same way that most children have. He has grown up faster, and in different ways, than most children do.

Source: A Rumor Of War

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