"A bit of brass doesn't make anyone a hero" (Page 36).

"He must turn to something solid, because if he didn't, who knew where his mind or his soul could blow way to, like a balloon without a ballast" (Page 40).

"If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did" (Page 56).

"Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to endure it" (Page 75).

"If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, ad there was no getting them back. She...