Sam Small

“Continuous Fire, defensive fire, curtain fire, trench mortars, gas tanks, machine-guns, hand grenades - words, words, but they embrace all the horrors of the world.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Sons of suicide often think of killing themselves at the end of the day, when their blood sugar is low.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“But every gasp strips my heart bare. The dying man is the master of these hours, he has an invisible dagger to stab me with: the dagger of time and my thoughts.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Always it was the same, Furlong thought; always they carried mechanically on without pause, to the next job at hand. What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same - or would they just lose the run of themselves?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These