Status Updates From Pe frontul de vest nimic nou

“Ik zie hoe volkeren tegen elkaar worden opgehitst en elkaar zwijgend, onwetend, dwaas, gehoorzaam, onschuldig vermoorden. Ik zie dat de knapste koppen van de wereld wapens en woorden bedenken om het allemaal nog geraffineerder te maken en nog langer te rekken. En met mij samen zien al mijn leeftijdgenoten het, hier en bij de tegenpartij, over de hele wereld, mijn hele generatie beleeft hetzelfde als ik.”

Talk about a juxtaposition from all the Harry Potter reading

"fatty looks round enquiringly" I'M SOBBINGGGGGG GET HIM BOYS

"you'll never make anything of your life, bäumer," I CACKLED LMAOOOOO

"he says he means to use the fat that slowly accumulates in the tin-lid for polishing his boots, and roars with laughter for half an hour at his own joke." WALLAH HE'S SO ME IJBOLLLL

"the pale hour makes our faces look grey." ouhh my god the ivory hour core.. tell me why it's on page 60 too.. something something the ivory hour isn't just the hour of peace edith and len feel meeting each other but also the early hours where the boys trudge along in the war and they're so alone that everything is bright again in the world and their faces are illuminated in ivory. my book is going to be GENIUS!