Tielke

“Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

“But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs—a touch of romance.”
― Bruce Bairnsfather, Bullets and Billets

“This is War. Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.”
― Ellen N. La Motte, The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse