You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]