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class never slept.
In ten minutes alone she could make me forget anything was wrong. She was magnetic, vivacious, and my best friend
Just being twenty would be nice.
“You can’t rush perfection, and I’m about to go man hunting.”
Oh God. I was in love with a soldier. I couldn’t love a soldier. I swore I never would. I would never put my heart in the hands of someone who threw his life away in a foreign country, fighting for people who didn’t even want us there, and left for months at a time. I couldn’t love a soldier. I couldn’t sit home and wait and wonder if he’d ever come back. I wouldn’t answer the door when strangers knocked. I wouldn’t fall apart.
Don’t try to rationalize war.”
“I’m not living this life, Mom. I want stability, and roots, and one house for the next twenty years where my kids can mark the door frames as they grow. The army is a deal breaker.”
You weren’t born to be confined to a roadmap.
