“One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.”

“After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly.”

“War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.”

“What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die?”

“As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.”

“It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.”