Sebastian Faulks Quotes

born 1953 England

Sebastian Charles Faulks (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is most notable for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.

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Also known as: Birdsong (novel)

Random Sebastian Faulks quote

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He depended on the resilience of certain men to nerve himself to his unnatural life.

Birdsong (1993)

Jack already immune to death, let their white faces drift from his memory.

Birdsong (1993)

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.

Birdsong (1993)

Any man shirking his duty would be shot on the spot.

Birdsong (1993)

He blamed the NCOs, who blamed the officers; they swore at the staff officers who blamed the Generals.

Birdsong (1993)

There would be some decorum in their dying beneath the country they had fought so long to protect.

Birdsong (1993)

His own [childhood] seemed so long ago that it was as is someone had lived it for him.

Birdsong (1993)

He spoke no French and viewed all buildings, fields and churches as profoundly alien.

Birdsong (1993)

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

Birdsong (1993)

But their breathing and their hearts worked as though one body.

Birdsong (1993)

No child or future generation will know what this was like.

Birdsong (1993)

There was only violent death or life to chose between; finer distinctions such as love, preference or kindness were redundant.

Birdsong (1993)

Once more in ragged suicidal line. They trudged towards the pattering death of mounted guns.

Birdsong (1993)

This is not a war. It is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.

Birdsong (1993)

It is as though you stop living. Your mind goes dead.

Birdsong (1993)

The place from which the boy had came was not just a better place but a better world.

Birdsong (1993)

Although he had little idea of time, the burned images of the preceding days lived in his memory with static clarity.

Birdsong (1993)

The empty expressions that filled so many letters home did not seem to describe the part that Stephen had played in his life.

Birdsong (1993)

I feel guilty that I have survived when all the others are gone.

Birdsong (1993)

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

Birdsong (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sebastian Faulks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.