7 Quotes by Charles Todd

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love.

He won't tell me very much about his war.None of us do. It isn't something to share, you see. What we've seen, what we've done, ought to stay in France. But it didn't, it came home in our memories. They aren't memories we want you to know. You are the world we fought for. Safe and sane and not ugly. Better to keep it that way.

You were one of the lucky ones," Dr. Fleming had told him not a fortnight ago. "But you can't see it as luck. In your view it's intolerable, your survival. You're punishing yourself because a whimsical God let you live. You think you've failed the dead, failed to protect them and keep them alive and bring them back home again. But no one could have done that, Ian. Don't you see? No one could have brought all of them through!

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.

Love teaches you humility – patience – understanding.

We left the flat together. I expected– dreaded– Mrs. Hennessy popping out her door and asking who my young man was. “An escaped murderer, Mrs. Hennessy; my father will be horrified.” But she didn’t come out her door.

You can’t save the world from itself. If people are intent on destroying themselves, they will. And sometimes they don’t care if they bring others down with them. That’s selfish but it’s human nature.