“No, not really. But Okay, I couldnt help but gloat a little. She likes me.Samedi didnt even look at me. Well of course, youve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how m...”

“Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, Nora, Im notattempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know youre capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanen...”

“I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.”

“She nodded and reached out to take my hand again. I turned to look at her fully, I didnt want to say it, but I felt I should. I'd never had a chance to say it to my sisters, to my mother and I'd al...”

“No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.”

“What about mold," Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

“Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat ...”

“The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival”