History Quotes / ShellshockedVeteran

->''"NOTHING is 'over'. Nothing. [[TheRemnant You just don't 'turn it off']]. It wasn't ''my'' war. You asked me, I didn't ask you."''

'''Mariner''': ''No, you do not.'' There was no honor, just massacres.\\

'''Mariner''': Starfleet is supposed to be about puzzling together the mysteries of life, not fighting wars! I don't wanna be a general! I don't wanna send my friends off to die! I just wanna be an ensign. If it was good enough for [[spoiler:Sito]], then it's good enough for me.

-->-- '''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

-->-- '''Steven''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture''

->''"There was a time I could see. And I ''have'' seen... boys like these -- ''younger'' even -- their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there is ''nothing'' like [[DespairEventHorizon the sight of an amputated spirit]]. There is no prosthetic for that."''
-->-- '''Colonel Slade''', ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''

->''"There's only so much fight in a person. Only so much death you can take before..."''
-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

->''"Battles leave scars. Some you can't see."''
-->-- '''Kanan Jarrus''', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels''

->Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.

'''Yuthura''': Someone did. Someone who had his face, but it wasn't my father. He had seen things, horrible things. He was at Malachor, but when Revan and Malak disappeared, he didn't go with them. He came home. At first I thought it was so he could be with my mother and I. I realize now he was trying to hide. Not from the Jedi, mind you. He was hiding from himself, from the things he'd done in the war. It was these atrocities that he remembered, haunted his dreams. He'd wake up in the night, his arm outstretched, the room turned over. At first it was just a few objects flying around, but then his senses would discover the other person in the room. My mother. He started to choke her through the Force and wouldn't stop. When I tried to stop him, I was the enemy too. I was another Mandalorian to be crushed.

->''I saw him, in that body I’d come to think of as the enemy. The body of my brother, once upon a time, but I’d forced myself to stop seeing him like that. At least, I’d tried.\\
“Get off of her!” I snarled the words, and lunged at him, already mentally calculating. No time to morph. Tobias was bent over in the corner; maybe Tom already took him out. I grabbed for him, and only stopped myself just in time.\\
Not an attack.\\
My instincts buzzed--he’d moved so fast, he’d gone for her, he would kill her, kill all of us--but Tom wasn’t trying to snap her neck. He wasn’t trying to twist her spine into two pieces. He wasn’t trying to hit her.\\
He was hugging her. And he was shuddering.''
-->-- '''Jake's narration''', '' Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings''

->''Cassie wonders, with a touch of annoyance at herself, if she’s going to be able to stop automatically mistrusting ex-hosts any time soon. Yeah. Sure. Probably around the time she stops flinching at loud noises and feeling half-suffocated any time she has to put on outer clothes that might restrict her in case she needs to morph in a hurry.''
-->-- ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}: A Straight Line Down Through the Heart''

->''"I can't get it out of my head. A dream of seven years. Everyday I have this. And sometimes I wake up and I don't know where I am. I don't talk to anybody. Sometimes a day -- a week. I can't put it out of my mind."''

-->-- '''Redgum''', "I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)"

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