Quotes by Danielle Trussoni

“My dad is very ill right now [with cancer], and I was talking the other day with a social worker from the hospice. And when I told her about what I was writing, she said, Oh, I know what memoirs mean. You just make it all up. Its shocking that people who arent in the literary community have such a reaction now.”

“It was extremely, extremely dangerous. The casualty rate was very high.”

“My dad witnessed that and carried him back to the rest of the platoon, which were behind him. And this experience damaged him very deeply.”

Finally (Evangeline) whispered, I wish that I had been more prepared.We prepare all of our lives for such moments, Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.