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- Abused as child by Father Mackenzie
- His death
- Sex with Nellie
- Development of his relationship with Sarah
- His conversation with Rivers
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- "Because I don't want to be one of them, he thought remembering a munitions worker's hand patting a girl's bottom" page 6
- "Prior dawdled along" page 33 childlike
- "The cards, the gossip, the triviality, the muckraking, the rubbish - he'd be glad to be shot of it all" page 33 Irony he'd rather be in France then England where its safer
- "But then, after all in trench time he was old. A generation lasted 6 months, less than that on the Somme, barely twelve weeks. He was this boy's great-grandfather" - Page 46 Prior cares for Hallet
- "I coud be getting on in the world, I might not want to be saddled with a wife from Beale Street" Page 73 He wants to control his own life
- "Marrying a factory girl not that it matters of course as long as you're happy but I've thought you could have done a bit better for yourself than that" Page 84 Because he's an officer he could have done better for himself
- "It's just... he happens to represent everything in England that isn't worth fighting for. Which made him a rather bracing companion" Page 101 Doesn't know what he's fighting for, hates the class system
- "Load of ****. Facts are what we need, man. Facts." page 107
- "Collected my coat today. I'm not even going to write how much it cost, but it's warm and light and it looks good, and I need all of that" Page 110 shows he likes to show off his status
- "The goodbyes all get trapped under the roof and **** the oxygen out of the air. No other reason for me to feel like this" Page 111 shows he's detached
- "It's the impersonality that forms the biggest part of the sheer ******* nastiness of this place" page 113 reflects how Prior feels about sex and relationships
- "he was startled by the intensity of his joy" - page 140 reflects how he enjoys war
- "Nobody's in control. Nobody knows how to stop" - modern view of war page 144
- "I told Rivers once that the sensation of going over the top was ****" Page 172 - The reason he came back to war, addicted to the adrenaline
- "I wish somebody would just tell me I did the right thing" - Page 215 unsure what to do - shows a different side to him
- "Marshall with great big fat tears rolling down his cheeks. I envied him" - Page 219 He envies the fact he can't show emotions or weakness as he's the leader
- "Tempting fate. Anyway, here comes dinner. I'm hungry" - Page 242 shows how Billy doesn't dwell on things
- "A chilly little not to send to someone who's done so much for me. Wrong tone completely, but there isn't time to get it right" -Page 255 not good with goodbyes
- "What an utter bloody food I would have been not to come back" - Page 258 Irony for most soldiers escapism is going war whereas for Billy it's his version of going to war
- "He gazed at his reflection in the water, which broke and reformed and broke again as bullets hit the surface and then, gradually, as the numbness speak. He ceased to see it" Page 273 Billy's death
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