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“When I do come home I will certainly let you come and kiss me goodnight as you always used to do; it was only a foolish schoolboy who thought he was too old for it when he was really too young to appreciate it.” 🥹❤️

“Consequently they are all too I’ll to be aggressive, & one forgets that they are the enemy and can only remember that they are suffering human beings.”

“…the people we care for seem too splendid for this world, & so we lose them.” 💔🥺

“…it is very hard that we should be the generation to suffer the War, though I suppose it is very splendid too, & is making us better & wiser & deeper men & women (at any rate some of us…) than our ancestors ever were or our descendants ever will be.” ❤️‍🩹

“Really such people shouldn’t exist!” 😂😂😂

Some irritations are truly universal 😂

“…sometimes I feel quite glad that Roland is lying where the guns cannot disturb Him however loudly they thunder & He cannot any more hear the noise they make.” 💔

“And after all to be human is better, and greater, and more beautiful than anything else.” 🫶🏻

“Yet I cannot help feeling that those twenty minutes were the consummation of His whole life— that He had always lived in preparation for that ordeal.” 💔