Claire Holden Rothman Professions : Novelist Born : 1958 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Claire Holden Rothman Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it. Claire Holden Rothman strange regret missing It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity. Claire Holden Rothman generosity holiday war Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors