It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.
Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.