A Farewell To Arms Quotes
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."
"There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark it was like summer lightning, but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming."
"Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors."
"The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare."
"There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes."
"I was always able to forget, but I did not know that then, although I learned it later."
"We were just beginning to get some of them. They were a real mask."
"I wish to God it was over though. Maybe it would finish this summer. Maybe the Austrians would crack."
"It was like being put to bed after early supper."
"We're all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it."
"I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it."
"They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one."
"It's hard to see inside the head of the brave."
"The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent."
"I felt sick in the night and in the morning after breakfast I was nauseated."
"People have babies all the time. It's a natural thing."
"The whole bloody thing is crazy. Down below they blow up a little bridge. Here they leave a bridge on the main road. Where is everybody? Don’t they try and stop them at all?"
"It’s a crime to send you back. They ought to get complete articulation."
"I’m so—sleepy I went to sleep three times coming here from Plava."
"I have had Italian officers visit me frequently and I have kept brandy to offer them."
"We were all cutting twigs and branches. Everything had been taken out of the car."
"That wasn’t the question. I have seen self-inflicted wounds also."
"There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity."
"To my love Catherine. That my sweet love Catherine down might rain. Blow her again to me."
"It's not deserting from the army. It's only the Italian army."
"I love the way it feels under my shoes."
"I feel like a criminal. I've deserted from the army."
"I wish I had been with you so I would know about it too."
You see I'll make you a fine wife," Catherine said. "I'll be able to talk art with your customers.
"We're here, darling! Do you realize we're here?"
"You make no mistake in going to Montreux," the first official said. "You will find the climate delightful and beautiful. You will have no distance to go for winter sport."
"It is true, isn’t it, darling? I’m not just driving down to the stazione in Milan to see you off."
"We slept well and if I woke in the night I knew it was from only one cause and I would shift the feather bed over, very softly so that Catherine would not be wakened and then go back to sleep again, warm and with the new lightness of thin covers."
"The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college."
"I think the cup of water on the burning log only steamed the ants."