“The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own”

“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”

“I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me.”

“When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.”

“I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.”

“Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”