# Quote — Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

> He wanted to answer them with steel and explosives, with metal tearing into soft tissue and spinning on the bone. When the war was over there would be a place for contemplation, even generosity, but in the meantime he treasured his hatred as a means of saving his own life and those of his men.

- Author: [Sebastian Faulks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks.md)
- Book: [Birdsong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong.md)
- Page: 197
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sebastian_Faulks#Birdsong_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong/he-wanted-to-answer

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

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> If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.

p. 344 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong/if-they-could.md)

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

p. 218 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong/poor-fritz-he-must.md)