# Quote — Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

> They were breaking free into the darkness of normality, with food and drink, the sound of women and the sight of men whose first thought would not be to kill them.

- Author: [Sebastian Faulks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks.md)
- Book: [Birdsong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong.md)
- Page: 201
- 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/they-were-breaking

## More from this book

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

p. 421 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sebastian-faulks/birdsong/shells-will-fall.md)

> 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)