"Peace forces us to invent our future selves." Part 1, Chapter 1, pg. 10

"You won't need war now, Talbot, to see the world - hardship maybe, but not slaughter. Until this, war has been the way out, for most men." Part 1, Chapter 2, pg. 24

"If I get through this, the hours will be made to count." Part 2, Chapter 5, pg. 75

"We both, Peter and I, feel pursued by evocations of wartime violence, unexorcised. In my case, I think these now recede." Part 2, Chapter 8, pg. 112

"The price of vigilance is eternal liberty." Part 2, Chapter 9, pg. 127

"A man who hasn't killed is incomplete, analogous to a woman who has never given birth." Part 2, Chapter 9, pg. 133

"When we're indecisive, yes, the wishes of others gain." Part 2, Chapter 10, pg. 146

"What I come back for, to be loved like this." Part 2, Chapter 11, pg. 156

"Having expected, repeatedly, to die from the great fires into which his times had...