“Escape is a commodity like anything else”
“Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else.”
“This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.”
“Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity.”
“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
“There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.”