“So David and my baby were ‘collateral damage’?” Eve took small, sharp breaths.”
“Children and pets are collateral damage in love relationships at war.”
“We are all collateral damage for someone's beautifulIdeology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.”
“I took my Power in my Hand --And went against the World --'Twas not so much as David -- had --But I -- was twice as bold --I aimed by Pebble -- but MyselfWas all the one that fell --Was it Goliath -- was too large --Or was myself -- too small?”
“You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.”
“So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.”