11 quotes found
“Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.”
“Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.”
“It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.”
“Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.”
“Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.”
“Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of...”
“Who desired the Great War? No nation benefitted from it. The war brought about the destruction of the Prussian Empire, stripped the British Empire of its ability to hold its colonies, slaughtered t...”
“Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.”
“If you said to me, I do not love, I have never loved, then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say I do not hate, I have never hated, then you sound like half a man.”
“The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shr...”
“If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved,” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated,” then you sound like half a man.”
