Taylor

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up - take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Pretend to be good and even God will be fooled”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“And even if these scenes of our youth were given back to use we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front