Susan Hill

Quotes

1. Isn’t that why you read him to try and make some sense of all this?

2. 

   He tried not to count over all the possible ways in which, after tomorrow, he was going to die.

3. 

   I’m afraid of myself, of what I’m becoming.

4. 

   Had seen that Barton has appalled by the sight of Feurvy, as he had not been by the sight of the dead pilot in the crashed plane.

5. 

   He wanted to take the body … and dig a grave for him… for would that have been more purposeful, would he have done the first thing of vague since coming into this war?

6. 

   He was almost beside himself in a rush of dread on Barton’s behalf.

7. 

   There is no one that knows. Don’t go.

8. 

   They seem like some dream country which we inhabited long ago.

9. 

   This agony of feeling on behalf of someone else was entirely new to him.

10. 

    That day it hit me, that I’d been feeling nothing. I’d become entirely callous.

11. 

    But I have been ashamed of myself for getting so thoroughly hardened so quickly.

12. 

    He thought I want to go back for there was nothing for him here.