That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. Men who came back from the was with stories they could have told about the desperate failings of comrades at the point of death say only that they did it bravely. To the outside world, no soldier ever visited a brothel or acted like a savage or ran and hid from the enemy. Being over there was punishment enough. When wives have to hide the mortgage money or the kitchen knives from a husband who's lost the thread, they do it without a word, sometimes acknowledging it not even to themselves.
- Page 166
The light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
- Page 166
The light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
