" Under the ground in the grave human beings aren't the same. You can look at each other, understand each other, but you can't do
anything for each other."

"If we found a way to tell them news of a victory, would they be happier?" Kien asked.

"Come on! Even if we could, what would be the point? People in hell don't give a damn about wars. They don't remember killing. Killing is a career for the living, not the
dead. "

― Bảo Ninh , The Sorrow Of War: A Novel of North Vietnam