The Ghost Road

"We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job."

"Ghosts everywhere. Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them. This moment in this tent already had the quality of remembered experience."

"Murder is only killing in the wrong place."

"Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them."

"He likes being dominated, as people often do who've never had to raise their voice in their lives to get other people running after them."

"He has a lot of strengths but he isn't working from strength."

"Poor little bugger's had a station goodbye that's lasted for days."

"The mess has scuffed no-colour lino — the colour of misery, if misery has a colour....""

"After marriage complete fidelity was required and one expression of this was that one must never utter the name of an ex-lover."

"The widow of a chief can be freed only by the taking of a head."

"The world had gone mad, but they were the only ones who knew it."

"The noise was a physical thing, a pressure that pressed down on you, making it hard to breathe."

"They were all walking corpses, their bodies alive but their souls already dead." ** This quote conveys the devastating effects of war on the soldiers' psyches, suggesting that they are emotionally numb and detached."

"The past was always with them, a shadow that followed them wherever they went."

"He was going mad. He knew it. He could feel it happening."

"They were all broken men, but they were trying to put themselves back together, piece by piece."

"They were fighting for a cause that they didn't understand, for a war that they didn't believe in."

"They were killing each other for no reason, for a piece of land that didn't matter."

"The lines between good and evil were blurred, and it was hard to know who was the enemy."

"The world was a strange place now, a place of shadows and ghosts."

"He wasn't sure what was real and what was a dream."