“It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.”

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

“Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.”

“We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder.”

“. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

“ I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .”