The Long March Home Quotes

“It strikes me funny that at the end of life, it doesn’t matter what uniform we wore.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“And so I did nothing, stuck in limbo as the world exploded an ocean away.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“You left without a single word. How could you?”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“Because if the size of my world is no wider than her smile, that’s big enough for me”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“I’ve seen men sit down hard with bullet wounds, talk for a little while like they were only stunned, and die two minutes later. Soldiers blown to more pieces than can be scraped together in a box. Barrios of civilians bombed to nothing just because they were in the way.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“Ain’t no Army coming to save us. The war’s all turned to the Nazis now. President’s clean forgotten us. You and I don’t even exist”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“We stumble into the road to stare after the truck. A few minutes later a few Filipino soldiers come marching in its wake, Farther on, someone’s blowing a whistle and I can’t believe what I’m hearing: ‘Cease fire, cease fire!’ It don’t seem possible that after the horror of all we’ve been through, a war can end with a whistle and two words”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“They’re skinnier and dirtier than I remember—walking skeletons with skin sagging from their bones. Souls staring out from their human remains, waiting to be released.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home