“What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.”

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”

“The advice of his father came back tohim, never to take your eyes off awounded boar: that once youengaged an animal in the hunt, you mustfight it to the finish, and that when a boarwas wounded, that was when it the mostdangerous animal of all.That thought nagged at him.”

“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them. You've probably passed them. You've certainly stepped on them. Too many people have had enough. It's nothing new.”

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”