“Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things and places... The impression thinking about you gives me is very closely linked with that given me by a lonely hillside or… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“At this time of the year it seems that everything ought to be creative, not destructive, and that we should encourage things to live… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably true!' I said, rather sharply, for misery had as usual made me irritable. 'After the War there'll be no one for me to marry.' 'Not even me?' he asked very softly. 'How do I know I… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (and if we are English, even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.” — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
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