pain

Ray 2022-04-20 09:01:47

B's craving for food, the taunts of a veteran, a deal of equal value, do the children understand? No, not yet.
"There's no danger, as long as you're careful." The
children didn't understand what that meant. In their eyes, it was a game, but they didn't know that the smell of blood filled the air.
"Don't make fun of life."
"That's my friend."
"That's just a corpse."
Yes, after he died he was just a corpse, no longer had any meaning, on the battlefield.
But the kids haven't grown up yet.
They began to fear and panic, but the war was more than that, the smell of blood was getting stronger and stronger.
The children haven't grown up yet.

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.

  • Mueller: Listen, the sum of an arithmetic series is S = A + L times N over 2. Interesting, isn't it?

    Katczinsky: What do you want to learn that stuff for...? One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be worthless.