Because soldiers aren’t really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They’re not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story.

Age has more to do with experience than the number of years you may have walked the earth.

Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.

You should try never to be sure of things.

I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings.

But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.

Is this her death I’m looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?

Some people give off a scent of danger that the wise know and avoid and that the foolish are drawn to.

Sam’s world grew and grew with each book he finished.

The sea is a world no one truly knows... It is constantly changing, constantly moving. It is a living thing, never ageing, but never the same.