“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

“Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening”

“As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much”

“I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.”

“...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush.He needed to kill something.”

“We had seen too many horrors already, and we could see and hear more explosions all around us as the war continued, very close to our hiding place; machine gun fire and the sounds of grenades – all very frightening.”