“Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.”
“She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.”
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ”
“Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”