Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes

A War Changes People In A Number Of Ways. It Either Shortcuts You To Your Very Self; Or It Triggers Such Variations That You Might As Well Have Been A Larva, Pupating In Dampness, Darkness And Tightly Wrapped Puttees. Then, Providing You Don't Take Flight From A Burst Shell, You Emerge From Your Khaki Cocoon So Changed From What You Were That You Fear You've Gone Mad, Because People At Home Treat You As Though You Were Someone Else. Someone Who, Through A Bizarre Coincidence, Had The Same Name, Address And Blood Ties As You, But Who Must Have Died In The War. And You Have No Choice But To Live As An Impostor Because You Can't Remember Who You Were Before The War. There's A Simple But Horrible Explanation For This: You Were Born In The War. You Slid, Slick, Bloody And Fully Formed, Out Of A Trench.
The Great War Was The Greatest Changer Of Them All.

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