“I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.”
“I´ve blown past Bitter and am already in the heart of Apathy.”
“This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.”
“In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!”
“I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.”
“None of us moved for a moment, and I knew why. The possibility of finding Aisha like that was too much, too grisly.”