Quote 30: "Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead." Chapter 22, pg. Quote 29: "And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Well? She was saying, and I was saying, Sure, okay." Chapter 22, pg. Quote 28: "It lasted only a moment, but I had the feeling that a whole conversation was happening between us. Besides, it doesn't get easier with time, and twelve years later, when Vietnam presented much harder choices, some practice at being brave might've helped." Chapter 22, pg. Quote 27: "I should've stepped in fourth grade is no excuse. Quote 26: "It had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love, and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in." Chapter 20, pg. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth." Chapter 18, pg. Quote 24: "I want you to feel what I felt. He remembered wondering if he could lose himself." Chapter 17, pg. Quote 23: "He'd lost Kiowa and his weapon and his flashlight and his girlfriend's picture. Quote 22: "That night when Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank down into the sewage with him" Chapter 16, pg. Quote 21: " had no memory, therefore no guilt.It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know." Chapter 15, pg. Quote 20: "All right then, dance right." Chapter 14, pg. You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid him out like fuckin' Shredded Wheat." Chapter 12, pg. Quote 19: "Oh man, you fuckin' trashed the fucker. The magic doesn't go away." Chapter 10, pg. Quote 17:, "When I'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark-I'm on fire almost-I'm burning away to nothing-but it doesn't matter because I know exactly where I am." Chapter 9, pg. One more animal-end of story." Chapter 9, pg. Quote 16: "Tone? I didn't know it was all that complicated. Just the opposite he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt." Chapter 9, pg. Quote 15: "It wasn't a question of deceit. Quote 14: "It's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true." Chapter 7, pg. Over here, man, every sin's fresh and original." Chapter 7, pg. It says everything you can't ever say." Chapter 7, pg. Quote 12: "nd the whole war is right there in that stare. Quote 11: "If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie." Chapter 6, pg. Quote 10: "I survived, but it's not a happy ending. Quote 9: "Right then, with the shore so close, I understood that I would not do what I should do." Chapter 4, pg. What it came down to, stupidly, was a sense of shame." Chapter 4, pg. Quote 8: "My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. Quote 7: "All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. We got ourselves a nice mellow war today." Chapter 3, pg. You could put a fancy spin on it, you could make it dance." Chapter 3, pg. Quote 5: "On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. Quote 4: "By daylight they took sniper fire, at night they were mortared, but it was not battle, it was just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost." Chapter 1, pg. Quote 2: "Oh shit, the guy's dead." Chapter 1, pg. Quote 1: "Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should have done." Chapter 1, pg.
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