I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.