Birdsong (novel) Quotes

“I don’t value my life enough.”

“Non-believers finding faith in fear.”

“They mocked him for still being alive.”

“Poor Fritz. He must be mad by now under those guns.”

“We’ve all gone now. The whole of our little group.”

“Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.”

“It is as though you stop living. Your mind goes dead”

“He could remember this compassion but he no longer felt it.”

“No child or future generation will know what this was like.”

“But their breathing and their hearts worked as though one body.”

“I feel guilty that I have survived when all the others are gone.”

“It made him laugh, mad-eyed and bearded, like a hermit in his cave.”

“Shells will fall on the reserve lines and we will not stop talking.”

“This is not a war. It is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.”

“Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.”

“He was surprised by his own brutality, he assumed that it was caused by fear.”

“Stephen was moved by the thought of his fellow countrymen fighting this foreign war.”

“He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.”

“The place from which the boy had came was not just a better place but a better world.”

“He spoke no French and viewed all buildings, fields and churches as profoundly alien.”