“Every time I pass him he gives me the excommunication stare.”

“Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”

“That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!”

“Se estaba enseñando a sí mismo a pensar por su cuenta, a mirar detrás de las apariencias en un esfuerzo para descubrir la causa próxima”

“There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life.And then, of course, the end of the world happened.”

“He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.”

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”