“Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.”

“We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.”

“Do you miss Susie?"
Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her, because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.
"More than anyone will ever know.”

“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”

“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”

“Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.”

“I remember, when we were still living in the Soviet Union, Mum would rush by like the wind in our apartment, covered with fur, or even running from one movie scene to the next, because she was a movie star there. Even if it was 40ºF outside, she always wore a miniskirt. For me, she was the most beautiful of all women.”

“The directors of Synthank were eating an enormous luncheon to celebrate the launching of their new product. Some of them wore the plastic face-masks popular at the time. All were elegantly slender, despite the rich food and drink they were putting away. Their wives were elegantly slender, despite the food and drink they too were putting away. An earlier and less sophisticated generation would have regarded them as beautiful people, apart from their eyes.”

“From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me… They were just people…”

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”