Louisa Young Quotes

#1. 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.

Louisa Young

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

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#3. Last year we had many smallish hopes, made many smallish attempts, suffered many smallish failures, and we died one by one. This year a change of plan! One big hope, one big push, one big fuck-up, and we all die at once.

Louisa Young

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

Louisa Young

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

Louisa Young

#6. 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.

Louisa Young

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

Louisa Young

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

Louisa Young

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

Louisa Young