"'No more need for you, Doctor. It happened by itself.'"
Part 1, Search for the Father, first section (unnamed), p. 16

"We never know anyone."
Part 1, Search for the Father, Saint Brieuc and Malan (J.G.), p. 31

"For poverty is not a choice one makes, but a poor person can protect himself."
Part 1, Search for the Father, The Father. His Death The War. The Bombing, p. 66

"Life in its entirety was a misfortune you could not struggle against but could only endure."
Part 1, Search for the Father. His Death The War. The Bombing, p. 76

"No, school did not just provide them an escape from family life. At least in M. Bernard's class, it fed a hunger in them more basic even to the child than the man, and that is the hunger for discovery."
Part 1, Search for the Father, School, p. 146

"The Mediterranean separates two worlds in me, one...