Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

Everyone has a price, ” she said.“But clearly not everyone has a soul,

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.

I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Let go of your past. Start making history!

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!