Quotes by : Pat Barker

And the Great Adventure - the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they'd devoured as boys....

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think....

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward....

I had him in my cab once.Who? Neville askedRupert Brooke. He was good, him. "There's some corner of a....

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the....

Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it....

Obvious choices for the east window: the two bloody bargains on which civilization claimed to be based.....

Didn’t you find it all … rather unsatisfying?”“Yes, but I couldn’t seem to see a way out. It....

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene.The military authorities say....