“They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.”

“...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything”

“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.”

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.”

“In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.”

“He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope.”

“This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.”