Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.