"I just got back from Celia Forester's funeral. I'm supposed to be writing up an official report for the Tempest she f…"

"Horrible war. So much more horrible here than back in the States. Every few weeks someone's mother or brother or anot…"

"Careless talk costs lives."

"Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it…"

"Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insane m…"

"[W]ords on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts."

"Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something."

"Lift is made when the air pressure under a wing is greater than the air pressure over the wing. Then the wing gets pu…"

"Things don't magically take off and fly just because it's a little windy."

""It needs thrust," I said. "You have to run with it. Can you run?" She [Róża] gave me a dirty look. Then she broke ou…"