“She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it....”

“You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.”

“Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens...”

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things ...”

“A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.”

“... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.”

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”

“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

“Words are weapons.”