Ch 1 Quotes

“There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place, I want to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye