Birdsong Quotes- Part 5 England 1978-79

"He was a tremendous fighter. Quite unbelievable nerve. He never seemed very happy about it. Something worried him"

"This is all they know, all they remember"

" 'His last visitor was...' She consulted the file on her desk. 'His sister. In ninteen-forty-nine' "

"like a bird on its perch"

"The hair was not so much grey as colourless"

"she had somehow kept the chain of experience intact"

"after a long entry on June 30th 1916 there was nothing for two months. Had something happened?"

"Somehow she would repay the debt; she would complete the circle"

"Many times I have lain down and I have longed for death"

"I do not know what any of us did to tilt the world into this unnatural orbit"

"No child or future generation will ever know what this was like. They will never understand.

When it is over we will go quietly among the living and we will not tell them.

We will talk and sleep and go about our business like human beings.

We will seal what we have seem in the silence of our hearts and no worlds will reach us"