“We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.”

“There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.”

“I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were a part. And so on, until it all dissolved into the larger thing: my...”

“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”

“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.”

“I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by so...”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”