I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.