I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try