Contemporary Quote by Slava Pilotoff

“War's a funny thing. Some men go off and come home again just fine. But there's some that come home and never do come…

— Victoria Wilcox

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”

— Evan Meekins

“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

“The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them,…

— Mitch Albom

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“That war had almost torn the country in two, but the railroad, men said, had bound it back together, the tracks and ties like…

— Peter Ho Davies

“It makes no difference what men think of war ... War endures.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Some men still haven’t come home from this war. And some men never will.”

— Teresa Medeiros

“The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.”

— Tracy Anne Warren

“The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.”

— Kelsey Brickl

“The war never leaves.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.”

— Zlata Filipović