“The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.”
“If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.”
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”
“She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.”
“[...] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.”
“There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.”