“War made the state, and the state made war”

“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”

“The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.”

“I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor”

“No one can be cured of being who they are.”

“She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride”

“The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself.It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded before his eyes, like a house of cards.”