“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ” -- Plato
“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. ” -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ” -- Washington Irving
“We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.” -- André Berthiaume
“I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.” -- Ralph Ellison
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.” -- Molière
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.” -- Jean de La Fontaine
“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.” -- Jean de La Fontaine
It took me a bit to get into this book, not because of the author's skills but merely that this book not only constantly changes from POW's, its also a military book, so i had to sort out all the ranks etc.I really enjoyed reading it and Torin was amazing. And Jarret really stepped up.