“Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.”
“I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.”
“It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.”
“The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory”
“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." ”
“I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.”