Careless talk costs lives.

I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

It's very modern. Very gamine. You look like a jazz singer.

It's like being raised by wolves -- you don't realize you're not one yourself until someone points it out to you. Sometimes it makes me so mad that not everyone treats me just like another wolf.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.