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- His time at Eddystone
- His time spent with Kath
- His childhood memories
- His treatment methods of the soldiers
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- "You poor blighter, Rivers had thought, startled out of compassion. More than any other patient Moffet brought the words 'Pull yourself together, man' to the brink of his lips - Page 20 Rivers can't always maintain his patience
- "That's not true either. Remember all the young ladies mother used to invite to tea" - page 88 questions over Rivers sexuality
- "he had a faint. very faint" - page 93 emphasis on the fact that Rivers has no visual memory
- "Rivers was more than usually aware of the strong father-son element in his relationship with Prior" - Page 98
- "You always were. Well, it just occurs to me that you're actually rather better equipped than most people to observe the process, think you have great powers of detachment" - Page 102 Rivers see's good in Prior
- "it was because he'd been thinking so much about fathers and sons recently that the memory of the two sacrifices has returned, but he wished this particular memory had chosen another moment to surface" - page 104 shows Rivers cares about Prior and doesn't want him to go to war
- "and as a man one had to make some kind of sense of them" - page 117 Shows Rivers first for knowledge
- "Even Nijiru who, within the framework of his culture, was a compassionate man (and we had none of us claim more, Rivers thought) - page 134 Rivers perspective on nature and how it's been effected
- "At any moment now, one felt, the guns wold stop and they would all be released into their private lives" - Page 259 Rivers wants to escape war
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