If you beat a dog long enough, it goes crazy. Doesn’t matter how good it was before. After that happens, the dog that you knew is never coming back.
The only crime in a war is to lose.
It’s not where I’m going. It’s who I’m going with.
The thing about getting what you wanted is that sometimes it’s a disappointment. The getting it is the thing. And then afterwards, you feel kinda hollow.
Stay in any war long enough, it’ll get dirty.
Afghanistan is the simplest place in the world, once you stop trying to change it.
You asked me what face it is I want the world to see. This face has everything that I ever did wrong written all over it. And when I look in the mirror, I want to see the best version of myself again.[to Krista]
There are always more guys. Somebody always wants to get paid.
The only way to get by in this world is to step off it for a while.
Soldiers can’t question legality or morality in the moment. That’s a way to get yourself killed.
Once you cut that cancer out, you don’t let it back in.
