Skip to content

He wanted to answer them with steel and explosives, with metal tearing into soft tissue and spinning on the bone. When the war was over there would be a place for contemplation, even generosity, but in the meantime he treasured his hatred as a means of saving his own life and those of his men.

— Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993)

Another quote →

More quotes by Sebastian Faulks

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)

All Sebastian Faulks quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Sebastian Faulks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.