The Skylarks’ War Quotes

“There were no rules, only consequences.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldiers remarked how strange it was that the birds should be there, but in fact the birds had been there for centuries.
The really strange thing was that the soldiers were there.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“There were not rules, only consequences”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

“She considered it a great relief when a few days later she heard that her abandoned husband had caught pneumonia.”
― Hilary McKay, The Skylarks' War: Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award