Devon

“They had simple, gentle, ethical outlooks on life. It was clearly those same friendly, simple peasant fighters who were the ones ready to bear the catastrophic consequences of this war, yet they never had a say in deciding the course of the war.”
― Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

“He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him.”
― John Williams, Stoner: A Novel

“It was necessary to write about the war, to touch reader's hearts, to move them with words of love and sorrow, to bring to life electric moments, to let them, in the reading and the telling, fell they were there, in the past, with the author.”
― Bảo Ninh, The Sorrow of War

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner: A Novel