War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.