At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.
Vera Brittain[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.
Vera BrittainShe seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.
Vera BrittainHer mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.
Vera BrittainI know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
Vera BrittainTags: exaggeration
The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war.
Tags: inspirational
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about going on no matter how long the War lasts and what it may mean, could see a case--to say nothing of 10 cases--of mustard gas in its early stages--could see the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great mustard-coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes--sometimes temporally, sometimes permanently--all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
Vera BrittainTags: wwi
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