A Scar Is Never Ugly.

We Must Constantly Dare Ourselves In The Small Things, Until Courage Becomes A Habit Of Mind That Will Serve Us When We Are Unexpectedly Tested.

If I Can't Write It Would Be As If I Died.

I Was Astonished To Find That The Positions My Grandfather Had Defended Were Now Overgrown And Entangled With Trees And Thorns. I Suppose I Had Developed A Sense Of Reverence For The Locations He Described In His Memoirs And Letters - The Forts And The High Emplacements. I Had Expected Them To Have Been Preserved In Some Way.

Horror In Your Country Is Something You Take A Dose Of To Remind Yourself That You Are Not Suffering From It.

And Thus Love Makes Fools Of Us All.