The Shock of the Light Quotes

“Some of the men in the squadron,’ he says, after a while, ‘they’re a mess. It does things to your head, war. It’s not all heroics. It’s not like the newsreels.’ He hesitates. ‘It’s hellish, you know. Except that isn’t enough, that word, “hellish”. There aren’t words, I think, for this experience, and I’m worried . . .’
Tessa lets the pause hang. ‘Worried about what?’ she says, eventually.
‘That I’m going be a different person when this is all over. What it’s doing to me.”
― Lori Inglis Hall, The Shock of the Light

“They were linked by a single thread but now the thread divides, two twins, two lives. As the space between the twins widens, they don't notice it at first. The light that stands between them.”
― Lori Inglis Hall, The Shock of the Light