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«I am picked apart.
Each day, some new scrap of me is pecked out. I am losing those things that make me human.
Take me away from this place before it devours me, piece by piece.»

«I have walked closer than anyone would wish to come to death. I have spoken with the devils of Denland, and found them human, and I have owed my life to those that are not.»

«We are not the things we think we are, when we are tested. We do not know how much we lean on each others until those props are taken away. On our own feet at last, we are unsteady.»

«Love of her country was a great storm that bellowed and fell silent, but this love of home was a breeze that blew steady and forever.»

«The war is not those lies you see in print. The war is death and maiming. The war is terror and bloody stupidity.»

«It must be wonderful to be lifted thus above the common lot of humanity. Not, it seems to me, for the ability to destroy, nor even for the righteousness that must come from bearing the King's mark, but merely because with such power comes control over one's own destiny. Surely it must, for what use would such power be if its possessors are as confused and impotent as the rest of us.»