“We swarmed through Africa and America because we were better than they, of course we were, we were making war humane, and now it has broken down and they are dragged into hell with us. We have doomed the world with our advancements, with our democracy that is so much better than whatever they’ve thought of, with our technology that will so improve their lives, and now Algerian men must choke to death on their own melted insides in wet Belgian trenches and I—”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“Death is a debt which every one of us must pay.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“It seems unfair, doesn't it? Our parents got to live their whole lives without anything like this."
"Busily building up the world that led to this.”
― In Memoriam
"Busily building up the world that led to this.”
― In Memoriam
“It was dusk, on a Friday. The battered skeletons of trees tapered against the fresh starlight in No Man's Land. The sky offered curious glimpses of beauty, from time to time. The men wrote about it in their letters, describing sunsets in painstaking detail to their families, as if there was nothing to see at the front but crimson clouds and dusted rays of golden light.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“Henry? Would you have kissed me, if it hadn’t been for the War?”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
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