The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense. - Kate Atkinson

(“An eye for an eye,” Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Later, when she understood that it was the last time they would all be together, she wished she had paid more attention.

We cannot turn away,” Miss Woolf told her, “we must get on with our job and we must bear witness.” What did that mean, Ursula wondered. “It means,” Miss Woolf said, “that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future.”
“And if we are killed?”
“Then others must remember us.