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  1. John Fowles _ The Magus

    The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good."
    book-quotewartragedyhitler

  2. Terry Deary _ The 20th Century

    Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one of the greatest of those events is World War I – fought against Germany from 1914 till 1918. Everyone is in it together. Upper classes and lower classes, women as well as men. This 'mixing' has never happened before and it will change the way the classes look at each other
    book-quotewarsociety

  3. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.
    book-quotewarunited-states-of-americaslavery

  4. Kate Atkinson _ Life After Life

    It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too."
    book-quotewarpeacemusic

  5. Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins

    he inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brevets and stripes and ribbon medals and realized they had come off the bodies of the dead and injured. The empty uniforms would have provided a poetic image if he hadn't more or less relinquished poetry by then.
    book-quotewar

  6. Laurie Halse Anderson _ Forge

    There was a loud shuffling above. A line of redcoats took their position at the edge of the ravine and aimed down at the rebels."Present!" the British officer screamed to his men."Present!" yelled the American officer. His men brought the butts of their muskets up to their shoulders and sighted down the long barrels, ready to shoot and kill.I pressed my face into the earth, unable to plan a course of escape. My mind would not be mastered and thought only of the wretched, lying, foul, silly girl who was the cause of everything.I thought of Isabel and I missed her."FIRE!
    book-quotelovewarfight

  7. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.
    book-quotewar

  8. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder."
    book-quotewarveteranskilling

  9. Philippa Gregory _ The White Queen

    She doesn't realize yet though men go to war it is the women who suffer--perhaps more than anyone.
    book-quotewarwomen

  10. Philippa Gregory _ The White Queen

    I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.''It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
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  11. Philippa Gregory _ The White Queen

    There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier
    book-quotewarsoldier

  12. Philippa Gregory _ The Red Queen

    When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
    book-quotehistorywarunending
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