“It was the Hell you’d feared in childhood, come to devour the children. It was treading over the corpses of your friends so that you might be killed yourself. It was the congealed evil of a century.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“He recognised that bravery could only exist where there was fear, and so of all of them, only Gaunt was truly capable of heroism.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“You’re not afraid of dying, Henry. You’re just opposed to killing. That isn’t cowardice.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“Only one thought can comfort, and that is that he died, not for war, but for peace.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“The birds chattered merrily on the wet brown branches. Daffodils sunned out among the headstones. How alive it all seemed, and how gracious-to die in an era when your death bought you a brief moment at the centre of something. To be important, rather than one of millions.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
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