The First Stone Quotes

“And isn’t that also every soldier’s nightmare? To discover that death reigns on both sides of the front and that there’s really no difference between you and the enemy? You both have death as your employer, and you carry out its orders in perfect harmony with each other.”
― Carsten Jensen, The First Stone

“No one gets religion in the trenches. They become superstitious, which is something entirely different. They’re kneeling at fortune’s altar, not the Lord’s. We worship luck to hide shame in our own inadequacy.”
― Carsten Jensen, The First Stone