All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.