Here are some quotes from "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien:
- "They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity."
- "A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."
- "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."
I hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything else.
