They'll all kill themselves in their sleep." "They wouldn't be any better if they did wake up and be themselves--that is, supposing they are asleep, which I can't see.

They are what they are--and they're all alike--and never very different from what they are now." Lilly stared at Aaron with black eyes.
"Do you believe in them less than I do, Aaron ?" he asked slowly.
"I don't even want to believe in them." "But in yourself ?" Lilly was almost wistful--and Aaron uneasy.
"I don't know that I've any more right to believe in myself than in them," he replied.

Lilly watched and pondered.
"No," he said.

"That's not true--I KNEW the war was false: humanly quite false.

I always knew it was false.