Remembrance Quotes

“I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance

“If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.
After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance

“What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance

“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not do regarding hemlines. I have to report that the general opinion of a soldier looking forward to leave after many months at the Front is that a hemline should go up as far as possible, and that the more unrespectable the girl the better. The proviso being, of course, that one's own wife/sweetheart should not occupy this category.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance

“Suffering is the common lot of man.”
― Theresa Breslin, Remembrance