Morning Glory

“I can't of course remember," he told me in effect, "ex-actly what he said to me on that Sunday. It's difficult to summarise the intangible. Do you remember the two Karg.
Elert pieces that Sterndale Bennett played at the beginning of the service that afternoon? One of them, ' Clair de Lune, seemed to move him deeply. He said it reminded him of you in its coldness and the sense of aloofness from the world. He said that after talking with you in Fairfield it seemed ver strange to go and mix with the others in the chapel... I tok him that he loved you then. He said he didn't, but I cour see that that was merely a conventional answer. 118”
― Vera Brittain, Testament Of Youth

“In those days I knew, of course, nothing of psychology, that beneficent science which has begun to make men and women more merciful to each other than they used to be in earlier generations. 145”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

“We shall beat them," he said, " but they'll break our hearts first! 167”
― Vera Brittain, Testament Of Youth

“Edward entirely lacks any primitive warring side to his character such as Roland possessed.... I don't think that the heroic and glorious side of war appeals to him as it did to Roland and I think that this makes it much harder for him. 273”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth