“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982”

“I don’t know whom shall I ask this question! What is the rationality behind killing and murdering innocent people for the sake of your God?”

“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”

“Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.”

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

“For I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”