Louisa Young Quotes

Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.

More talk of love would lead to the difficulties surrounding ... Oh, God, he loved her, he did, she did, they did, it was.
It was.

Other people", Rose thought. "Other people and their bloody love.

He was astounded, sometimes, by the fluid articulacy of his own fury.

Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.

He's a man, she thought, and the very word gave her s frisson, a lurch inside.

No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.

They were completely happy. They couldn't stop smiling at each other, beaming like fools till their cheeks ached.