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"People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."

"We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals."

"At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters."

"Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."


"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."


"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"


"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."


"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."
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