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Here's what you need to know: some cliches are true, and war is definitely hell. It's being afraid all the time, and when you're not afraid it's because you're pumped full of adrenaline you could literally burst. It's watching people who you love- really profoundly love- get blown to pieces right next to you. It's seeing a leg lying in the ditch and picking it up to put it in a bag because no man- or part of a man, your friend- can be left behind. It's the dark night of the soul. There's no front line over there. The war is all around them, every day, everywhere they go. Some handle it better than others. We don't know why, but we do know this: the human mind can't safely or healthily process that kind of carnage and uncertainty and horror. It just can't. No one comes back from war the same. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

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We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. ↗

— Lynn Schooler

#nature-of-things #wind #home

It made Craze smile, despite wishing most of his body parts would find new homes and leave him in peace. ↗

— M. Pax

#sci-fi #home

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance - that's home. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#home #love #loved #return #richelle

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#cars #conscious #dumping #food #homes

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#home #life #change

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place. ↗

— Mike Yankoski

#homelessness #change

You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#home #change

Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out in the sun. Pagan. I laugh to see this was our religion all along. Hidden even from ourselves taught early not to touch the earth. Years of white gloves straight seamed hose. 'Being good girls.' Scripture like chains. Dogma like flies. Smiles like locks and lies. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I can't remember the last time I crapped in somebody's sink, but I think it may be why I'm not allowed in Home Depot anymore. ↗

— John Cheese

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