“They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.”
“Some lids are best kept closed, glued, nailed, screwed down and buried under six feet of earth.”
“All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.”
“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.”
“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”
“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”