Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.