“You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.”

“Let me leave you my number. Anything comes up, or if anyone bothers you-""You're bothering me.”

“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”

“Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm just used to you being single."For some reason, that bothered me. "What, you don't think any guy would ever be interested in me?"Actually," said Adrian, sounding remarkably serious, "I can imagine lots of guys being interested in you.”

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about how many people we killed in getting the job done… . All war is immoral, and if you let it bother you, you’re not a good soldier.”

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”