Birdsong Quotes- Part 3 England 1978

"people ought to ask new acquaintances who they were rather than what they did"

"sixtieth anniversary of the 1918 Armistice"

"But something about the war article had unsettled her: it seemed to touch an area of disquiet and curiosity that was connected to her own life and its choices"

"I feel there's a danger of losing touch with the past"

"fitted its tube like a bullet in the barrel of a rifle"

"dug by sweating tunnellers on a navvy's day rate"

"something unfulfilled, something needing to be understood"

"If she had no children herself she should at least understand what had gone before her; she ought to know what line she was not continuing"

"My God, nobody told me"

"Yet still somehow it was difficult to see her own life as the pinnacle of previous generations' sacrifices"

" 'blood thirsty and forever thinking *********** the enemy and help his men to do so' "

"it was just possible that she had chosen someone unobtainable for that very reason: that he did not threaten her independence"