Nick Harkaway, Tigerman Quotes
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.
