Kane and Abel (novel)

“Narrator (About Abel's mother): She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to scream.”

“Narrator : The worst earthquake ever in the history of America. Devastation in San Fransisco, at least four hundred people dead—others would be mourning. He hated that. It would take away from the birth of his son. People would remember that something else had happened on this day.”

“Jasio Koskiewicz (About Abel): Have you noticed this Helena? The ugly little bastard has only one nipple?”

“Anne Koskiewicz (As Abel leaves to the castle): Ah, Matka's littlest one, what will become of you now?”

“Leon: We have wooden swords and shields. We are not afraid of Germans or Russians.”

“Soldier (After raping Florentyna): I think I've made love to a dead woman.”

“Abel (To a soldier) I will live, you will not kill me. This is my home, and you are on my land.”

“Abel (In response to Stefan's shock at him eating an unskinned potato.) I've been places where the skins are a luxury.”