You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
“I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver an...”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what...”
“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.”
“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might...”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
“What was a prisoner of war anyway? Less than a man, just material to be used to make the railway, like the teak sleepers and steel rails and dog spikes.”