And love Quote by Ami McKay

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

— James Ellroy

“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by…

— Patrick White

“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.”

— Kelvin Fowler

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor…

— Wilfred Owen

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things…

— Anonymous

“for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject. But she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as children and what we’ve…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely…

— Patrick Rothfuss

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

“Aye, she thought, women must ever wait and steel their hearts against loneliness and fear; and the men would go riding out to war…

— Jan Cox Speas