Regeneration quotes

Rivers qoute- exit from war

“The patients weren’t allowed out here [tower balcony], in case the hundred-foot drop to the path below should prove too tempting an exit from the war.” 26

Machine gun quote

“A branch rattled along the windows with a sound like machine-gun fire, and [Burns] had to bite his lip to stop himself crying out.” 51

Quote Phsycological effects of Prior

“Abruptly, the joy died. Prior became quite suddenly depressed. He pushed his half-finished meal away.” 175

Rivers + Burns quote- eating

Rivers: ‘Would it be easier to eat in your own room?’ Burns: ‘A bit. I wouldn’t have to worry about upsetting other people.’ 25

Burns quote on officers

“You can’t let yourself know you want to be wounded, because officers aren’t supposed to think like that.” Burns, 244

Power, Control, and Institutional Authorities

5 quote

Protesting

“I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors”

Signs of improvement for rivers

“Rivers, by now feeling quite ill, was carried through it only by his own perception that some at least were showing signs of improvement”

Sarah thought ….

“we don’t look human”

About Sassoon

“He couldn’t escape responsibility”

powerful

“Rivers felt that nothing callan could say could have been more powerful than his silence”