Postcards from No Man's Land Quotes

He shifted in his seat and smiled secretly. The pleasure of self-discovery. (1.7)

But it wasn't until he was in bed that he felt—really felt—just how embarrassed he was. And, for heaven's sake, how could he not have realized that Ton was a boy? Thinking about it now, he knew...

I was on my way back when I heard the planes and saw the parachutes. "Oh look!" I called out, though there was nobody to hear me. "Look! How beautiful!" And then I raced for home, saying to myself...

So at home I stayed with only Sooji, my childhood teddy bear, to nurse while I watched the soldiers from my bedroom window. Every time one of their guns went off, the blast shook our house, rattlin...

"To tell the truth, I think I'm in love with Anne herself." Surprised by his unintended confession, he sat back, drained his coffee, rubbed his thighs, was aware of his toes tapping a rapid tattoo...

"Think, my dear. We owe it to these people. They've come to help us. We must do what we can to help them. And think of our daughter. Isn't it natural she wants to play her part? When this horror is...

It is when success seems to be almost in your grasp that you become aware of how fragile is human existence, and of the unending possibility, almost the inevitability, of failure. And this makes yo...

Only then did he also take in what Ton had scrawled in a spidery hand on the inside flap: a row of telephone figures under which were the words: BE READY NIETS IN AMSTERDAM IS WAT HET LIJKT. (1.50)