It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.