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I have been reading this intermittently since I went to South Africa last year. I will finish it... eventually.

"...pure Nightingale compassion, is handing him a hard red candy, molded like a stylized raspberry… mm, which oddly enough even tastes like a raspberry, though it can’t begin to take away the bitterness. Impatiently, he bites into it, and in the act knows, fucking idiot, he’s been had once more, there comes pouring out onto his tongue the most godawful crystalline concentration of Jeez it might be pure nitric acid"

"They're in love. Fuck the war."

"Pecorin is a rather splendid man, if a bit peculiar. I have spent hours in the driving cold with him, he wearing nothing but his coat, and he acts as though it is not a problem. Yet, the slightest draft comes through his office and he acts as though he will catch cold and die... He is quick to reach for his dagger when insulted and I fear his haste to quarrel will lead to his demise."

I have become one of those people.

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”