“He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.”

“I watch him walk away with the only family he has left and I know why Adam joined the army. I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy. I know why he dealt with the horrifying reality of war, why he was so desparate to run away, so ready to run way as soon as possible. Why he's so determined to fight back. He's fighting for so much more than himself.”

“He had been through so much, and had grown so discouraged, so sad, so disgusted with himself, that he could understand... It was the worst thing in the world to lose faith with oneself.”

“I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.”

“It hurts, so much, to love. To love people only to watch them suffer.”

“The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain, he wasn't too old to climb trees. You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?”