For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.