Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

If something doesn't look right, throw some glitter on it.

We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.

What do they teach them at these schools?

Something needn't be large to be good.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.