"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy th…"

"Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you […"

"Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. Peop…"

"It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead…"

"Now I see what racing skiing is all about. It's all right to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the ot…"

"Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but …"

"You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with 'personality,' and without that accolade no …"

"He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any r…"

"I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from t…"

"Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence."