Father Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.”

— Roger Klare

“She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.”

— George Eliot

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”

— Anthony Doerr

“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was…

— Tatjana Soli

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I…

— Steve Maraboli

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

“She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in…

— John Green

“Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was…

— Soraya Lane

“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more…

— Frank Beddor

“If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life…

— M.L. Stedman