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Very sweet and well written.

You can believe in a vengeful God. You can believe in medicine. It will all fall away. Truth runs under the world, a deep black seam of truth, and that’s in the end what we seek, as doctors and as human beings.

I was my brother’s keeper, and I lost him.

I felt disembodied, as though I was no longer part of the world, almost as if I was the snow.
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The black trunks of trees, the grey sky, the dead landscape of murdered France.

Later we walked down to the sea and I was struck suddenly by the futility of it all. The sea was still the sea. Nothing important had changed, and yet we had been years patching up the bodies of men so they could be torn up all over again.

It occurred to me send that the war would go on, it wouldn’t matter if a peace was struck, the damage was so great that the war would go on for generations. A little boy I saw on his way to school, his mother and sister trailing behind, would have no father, no way to know anymore how to be a father. And on and on.

The war intensified everything, as if we knew, for the only time in our lives, how precious a moment is, a stone, a flower, a person. Not that we thought we’d die... I certainly didn’t but death was all around us, death, and severed limbs and broken men. You couldn’t see that, I mean, really see it, and not contemplate your own place in it all, not see you only had this moment to live in.

We none of us should talk of the war as if it’s anything but evil. We’ve lost the right to be called human.

Very informative and inspiring.

“Of course we’ll manage. After all, we’re women.”

Very well thought out characters!

Very good so far. I love aussies!

Very immersive

“‘Gift cards are worse,’ Oak says when I do not respond. ‘I would bring shame on the entire Greenbriar family if I left a gift card.”

“Just because a pawn is better treated doesn’t make it safer on the board.”
So good so far! I can feel Wren’s personality through the pages!

What you get if you cross Beauty and the Beast with The Hunger Games. Really good so far!

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.”

“Then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the finality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”

“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose… his own soul.”
“Don’t, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.”

“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“‘Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.’
‘One may loose his way.’
‘All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.’
‘What is that?’
‘Disillusion.’”

“He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.”