“Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.”

“Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.”

“It's good fortune that we walk backwards into the future, that present and past are all we see.”

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

“Clippy got that pervert-on-the-playground look again..”

“Been there, done that, never want to go there again.”

“Shelling, many felt, was actually worse than bombing, since bombardments were not preceded by an alarm. From 4 September to the end of the year the Wehrmacht’s heavy artillery pounded Leningrad 272 times, for up to eighteen hours at a stretch, with a total of over 13,000 shells. (...) The rumour that some shells were filled only with granulated sugar, or held supportive notes from sympathetic German workers, was a soothing invention.”