How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her there at the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. (18.93)
Inman is thinking about the war here and the terrible damage it did to him. But it seems like there might be a hope—as terrible as war is, maybe he has found something on the other side of it after all.