Pete

“if people read more, fewer of them would get shot.”
― Blake Banner, Dead of Night

“It is not easy to become sane”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We do not pray for victory, nor even for our individual safety. But we pray for help that none of us may let a comrade down - that each of us may do his duty to himself, his comrades and his country, and so be worthy of our American heritage.”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

“My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.”
― Philip Kerr, A German Requiem