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“He is learning that in any war, the victors may be destroyed as completely as the vanquished. They still have their lives, but they have given up everything else in order to keep them. They sacrifice what they do not realize they have until they have lost it. And so the man who can win the war can only rarely survive the peace.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“I remember friends from wars all but we forgot.
All of them distilled into each wound we caught.
Those wounds are all painful places where we fought.
Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
What is it that we spent and what was it we bought?”
― Frank Herbert

“The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.”
― Aysha Taryam

“I stared at the bodies of the young men whose lives I took. I wondered what they were like and if they had partners waiting at home for them. Maybe if we grew up on the same side of Suhai we could have been friends.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“I had never been to war, but I knew what it was like to be prepared to face the enemy every day.
The difference was, my enemy wasn’t a faceless stranger. My enemy was someone I loved.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I closed my eyes and wished the way I felt in that moment, lucky and loved, could last forever.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“If all the bruises and pain Dad had marked me with over the years formed a permanent stain,
people like Moustache Man might shut the hell up about what a great father I had.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Though I was sure she’d never noticed it, I had spent my whole life doing what I could to protect her. I didn’t know if she could survive without me. I didn’t know who I would be if she no longer needed me to stand guard.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“It felt like someone had waved a magic wand over my life, wiping out the mother I had known
before. I wasn’t sure which one was the dream � the person she had been when Dad was living
with us, or the one she was now.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“He drained her of self worth: death by a thousand cuts. Snide little comments, rolling eyes and always that tone in his voice, the one that told her how worthless she was.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I felt my throat ache and knew it was her sadness I swallowed down”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I told myself fear would not control me and searched for ways to prove to myself I was the one who held the power.”
― Ruth Clare

“People could see whatever they wanted to see on the outside, but if they scratched the surface they would find I too pulsed with dangerous power. This was my secret. This was my weapon. This was what would get me through.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Every good trait has its shadow side.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War