"Three Soldiers" Quotes
Three disillusioned soldiers navigate the horrors and absurdities of war in this powerful anti-war novel.
fiction | 362 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
They were all out of step except Bill, who was always out of step.
He had had to go through a lot of things before he had learned that it was not necessary to believe everything people told you.
He was sick of the whole business, sick of the army, sick of the war, sick of himself.
He wondered if he would ever get back to America, if he would ever be able to be a man again.
He had learned that nothing was any use, that nothing was worth doing, that everything was a swindle and a lie.
But he had learned that it was foolish to expect anything from anybody.
He got a funny feeling about himself as if he were turning into a cat.
He had been taken in by the old trick of wanting to do something worth while.
They were all like that, they were all going through the same thing he was going through.
He felt as if he were walking in a dream, as if he were walking in a dream of death.
