# Quote — Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

> Still, the more sardonic they became, the more he cared for them. Still he could not quite believe them, he could not comprehend the lengths to which they allowed themselves to be driven.

- Author: [Sebastian Faulks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks.md)
- Book: [Birdsong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong.md)
- Page: 282
- 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/still-the-more

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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.

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

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