“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.”

“We're all water from different rivers,That's why it's so easy to meet,We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,Someday we'll evaporate together.”

“The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off with jugs and buckets to meet the water cart. It is queer to think that these are the people who once ruled Europe, from the Channel to the Caspian Sea and might have conquered our own island, if they had known how weak we were.”

“It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are the strongest...”

“It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.”

“Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.”