“She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....”

“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”

“Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.”

“If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.”

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”