Susan Hill

Quotes

1. He knew that when he left here, he would not be able to believe that it would all continue to exist.

2. 

   the old familiar stumps of rotten black teeth.

3. 

   Men could never be so stupid, John! After all this!

4. 

   The letters were so full of formal expressions of love and sympathy.

5. 

   I’ve been trying…give it a point and purpose when there are none.

6. 

   We had better not start building castles in Spain.

7. 

   He can’t wait to get his bayonet into someone, which I find very chilling, and more so because he is basically a nice chap.

8. 

   But wasn’t Harris better off? For would he not have gone through terror after terror in the front line, only to meet a death less sudden, more painful, more clearly foreseen?

9. 

   She was like the others. Understood nothing.

10. 

    The War? I shouldn’t think that’s possible.

11. 

    You can’t feel everyman’s death.

12. 

    His initial excitement had gone long since.