“But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost”

“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.”

“He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and mad...”

“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”

“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”

“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of his dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light of day. The...”

“Guy of Gisborne: I understand the king is winning, thanks be to God. Robin Hood: Hes killing more people.Gisborne: Is that not winning?Robin: Show me an argument ever settled with bloodshed, and th...”

“All bombing is terrorism.”

“We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")”

“Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed ...”