Family Quote by Jonathan Tropper

“Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry.”

— Virginia Woolf

“And so the broken family nestled into one another, each hoping the others' presences would fill the wound their personal war had left behind.”

— Yaa Gyasi

“That was the most bitter irony of war: The greatest acts of love for your family were the ones that kept you apart from…

— Ben Acker

“I’ve come to realize that we’re never going to get it figured out. We’re not going to come to our senses and be the…

— Rory Feek

“And then all this talk of love and marriage out of nowhere? It's the war talking. I know; I've seen it. They head off,…

— Jessica Brockmole

“We were engaged. Not to be married, but in combat. So same thing.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Every day you enjoy the freedom I fought to protect. What greater honor than for a soldier to fight for his own family?”

— Heather Burch

“In the middle of a war, there’s no room for weakness. Love will get you killed,”

— Ashley Antoinette Snell

“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there…

— Donald Barthelme

“You don't prepare to lose your family. You fight like hell to protect them, and you never get over it when you fail.”

— Kit Rocha

“I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn’t.”

— V.T. Davy

“Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.”

— George R.R. Martin