"God," he said, "God of the green pastures and still waters. I'm not praying for help because I am David and that's something that can't be altered. But I want You to know that I've found out that green pastures and waters are not enough to live by... nor is freedom. Not when you know there's love in the world. And you haven't anyone to belong to because you are different and only a boy who's run away. I'm only saying this to tell You that You needn't help me anymore to escape from them. It doesn't matter. Thank you for the times You helped me when I thought life was worth living. I am David. Amen."
-I Am David
"I've begun to realize that you can listen to science and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks, and I can hear it."
-The Chosen
[Mr. Hyde] seems hardly human! Something troglodic, is it mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay content? If ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend!
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never say a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I could not specify the point.
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades- words, words, but they hold the horror of the world....How long has it been? Weeks--months--years? Only days. We see time pass in the colourless faces of the dying, we cram food into us, we run, we throw, we shoot, we kill, we lie about, we are feeble and spent, and nothing supports us but the knowledge that there are still feebler, still more spent, still more helpless ones there who, with staring eyes, look upon us as gods that escape death many times.
-All Quiet on the Western Front
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