"April Morning" Quotes

For a minute, I was almost afraid.

I was no longer a child, and not yet a man, and there was something about this morning that made me feel like I was both.

There was a great silence, and I knew that it was the silence of death.

I had a sudden knowledge of the moral cowardice of the world.

This was not my war, not my father's war, nor my brother's war, but now it was my war.

I was suddenly afraid of being alone.

I knew that the world was not as it should be and that it was up to me to make it so.

There was a sudden and terrible sense of loneliness.

I wanted to laugh, to cry, to do something, but I did nothing.