“ You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. Paul Hoffman
“ As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time. Paul Hoffman
“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Th… Paul Hoffman
“ T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there m… Paul Hoffman
“ The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life. Paul Hoffman
“ When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died. Paul Hoffman
“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Paul Hoffman
“ ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabb… Paul Hoffman
“ ...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. Paul Hoffman
“ - Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. Paul Hoffman
“ In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It… Paul Hoffman
“ Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you. Paul Hoffman
“ Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and s… Paul Hoffman
“ People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back on… Paul Hoffman
“ Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. Paul Hoffman
“ ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him becau… Paul Hoffman
