“Horrle was nodding gravely, humoring him, probably thinking that out of all these two hundred fun-loving people it was just his luck to have run into a doom merchant. McIntyre had committed the sin of pessimism, of course, forgetting, as a Brit, that out here optimism was more than a state of mind; optimism was a philosophy.” OptimismPessismism Book:The Killing Fields Source: The Killing Fields
“What came up mostly to the newsmen was the speechlessness of this vast caravan of misery and the persistent sound, like rain, of children crying.” WarTraumaticHorrors Of War Book:The Killing Fields Source: The Killing Fields