"They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day."

Next Quote

Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

— Andrew Himes