Ding be CHILLING

“War, in some ways, is merciful to men.

It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished -they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman- you must live through defeat… you become the mother of dead sons, a widow or an orphan or worse, a prisoner.”

1. He had a hard time of it, especially in the beginning but even after it was no longer the beginning

2. The world wasn’t real anymore. Sleepwalking through his days and struggling to fall asleep at night

3. Stories are no less valuable than money but in the short run they have their decided limitations.

4. They weren’t tormented by the curse of ambition. Alexander conquers the world and then what? He builds a rocket ship and invades Mars.

1. Barrel boys don’t have parents. We’re born in the harbor and crawl out of the canals.

2. “They fear you as I once feared you. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”

3. “How could you say something like that to her? She’s just a child.” “We were all children once.”

4. She learned to smile, to arch her back. She still wept, but the tears were never shed.

1. She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.

2. There she went again, seeking decency when there was none to be had.

3. She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.