“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
― Siege and Storm
― Siege and Storm
“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Siege and Storm
― Siege and Storm
“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.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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