“Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.”

“One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.”

“They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.”

“People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening”

“I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case.Oh god, is it wartime already?Look on the bright side: itll be dinner when we get back.”

“The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.”

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”

“I watch what happens below and Iam grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below me it happens, it happens that night bright as day, but I cannot name it, those things tha...”

“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.”