“Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.”
“He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.”
“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.”
“That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”
“It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.”
“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”