She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

History! Read it and weep!