Top 70 Pat Barker Quotes (2024 Update)
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Pat Barker Quote: “The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she’s the voice of authority here, in the Salle d’Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.”

51. “The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she’s the voice of authority here, in the Salle d’Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Achilles’ story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you’ll find Achilles.”

52. “Achilles’ story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you’ll find Achilles.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Two miles up the road to hell. No point blaming those women because they couldn’t imagine it. He could hardly realize it himself, sitting there by the window, stirring his coffee, bubbling with excitement about his room, the work he intended to do there, and the new idea that was beginning to take root in his mind.”

53. “Two miles up the road to hell. No point blaming those women because they couldn’t imagine it. He could hardly realize it himself, sitting there by the window, stirring his coffee, bubbling with excitement about his room, the work he intended to do there, and the new idea that was beginning to take root in his mind.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Forget. So there was my duty laid out in front of me, as simple and clear as a bowl of water: Remember.”

54. “Forget. So there was my duty laid out in front of me, as simple and clear as a bowl of water: Remember.”

Pat Barker Quote: “I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who’d learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect.”

55. “I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who’d learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect.”

Pat Barker Quote: “He’s not human,” Ajax blurted out. “Well, of course he bloody isn’t,” Agamemnon said. “His mother’s a fish.”

56. “He’s not human,” Ajax blurted out. “Well, of course he bloody isn’t,” Agamemnon said. “His mother’s a fish.”

Pat Barker Quote: “I don’t think he was ashamed of anything those hands had done – proud of it, in fact – but all the same they were a problem, because they shaped other people’s perceptions of him in ways he couldn’t control.”

57. “I don’t think he was ashamed of anything those hands had done – proud of it, in fact – but all the same they were a problem, because they shaped other people’s perceptions of him in ways he couldn’t control.”

Pat Barker Quote: “In leading his patients to understand that breakdown was nothing to be ashamed of, that horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma of war and were better acknowledged than suppressed, that feelings of tenderness for other men were natural and right, that tears were an acceptable and helpful part of grieving, he was setting himself against the whole tenor of their upbringing. They’d been trained to identify emotional repression as the essence of manliness.”

58. “In leading his patients to understand that breakdown was nothing to be ashamed of, that horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma of war and were better acknowledged than suppressed, that feelings of tenderness for other men were natural and right, that tears were an acceptable and helpful part of grieving, he was setting himself against the whole tenor of their upbringing. They’d been trained to identify emotional repression as the essence of manliness.”

Pat Barker Quote: “I will never forget that she cried for me when I was not able to cry for myself.”

59. “I will never forget that she cried for me when I was not able to cry for myself.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Men experience their own ageing in the bodies of women.”

60. “Men experience their own ageing in the bodies of women.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Achilles shook him. “Just come back.”

61. “Achilles shook him. “Just come back.”

Pat Barker Quote: “No likely end would bring them loss or leave them happier than before.”

62. “No likely end would bring them loss or leave them happier than before.”

Pat Barker Quote: “It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences – and they don’t have to be dramatic – when things begin to change; and you know there’s no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn’t going to help you understand. You’re not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.”

63. “It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences – and they don’t have to be dramatic – when things begin to change; and you know there’s no point ruminating about it, because thinking isn’t going to help you understand. You’re not ready to understand it yet; you have to live your way into the meaning.”

Pat Barker Quote: “The sea was calm, almost inaudible, a toothless mouth mumbling pebbles in the darkness.”

64. “The sea was calm, almost inaudible, a toothless mouth mumbling pebbles in the darkness.”

Pat Barker Quote: “No one looks him in the face now, it’s as if his grief frightens them. What are they afraid of? That one day they’ll have to endure pain like this? Or that they never will, that they’re incapable of it, because grief’s only ever as deep as the love it’s replaced.”

65. “No one looks him in the face now, it’s as if his grief frightens them. What are they afraid of? That one day they’ll have to endure pain like this? Or that they never will, that they’re incapable of it, because grief’s only ever as deep as the love it’s replaced.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Achilles lives in the present. He remembers the past, not without regret, but increasingly without resentment. He rarely, if ever, thinks about the future, because there is no future. It’s amazing how easily he’s come to accept that. His life rests like a dandelion clock on the palm of his open hand, a thing so light the merest breath of wind can carry it away.”

66. “Achilles lives in the present. He remembers the past, not without regret, but increasingly without resentment. He rarely, if ever, thinks about the future, because there is no future. It’s amazing how easily he’s come to accept that. His life rests like a dandelion clock on the palm of his open hand, a thing so light the merest breath of wind can carry it away.”

Pat Barker Quote: “We women are peculiar creatures. We tend not to love those who murder our families.”

67. “We women are peculiar creatures. We tend not to love those who murder our families.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Why him? Why not me? He asks the questions over and over, as if one day they might have a different answer, and the burden of guilt be lifted at last.”

68. “Why him? Why not me? He asks the questions over and over, as if one day they might have a different answer, and the burden of guilt be lifted at last.”

Pat Barker Quote: “We all try to make crazy deals with the gods, often without really knowing we’re doing it.”

69. “We all try to make crazy deals with the gods, often without really knowing we’re doing it.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon.”

70. “Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon.”

Pat Barker Quote: “It’s almost as if for the labouring classes, illness has to be physical. They can’t take their condition seriously unless there’s a physical symptom.”

71. “It’s almost as if for the labouring classes, illness has to be physical. They can’t take their condition seriously unless there’s a physical symptom.”

Pat Barker Quote: “So Agamemnon fears the dead? Well there are plenty of them to fear – young men with all their lives ahead of them do not go down into the darkness reconciled.”

72. “So Agamemnon fears the dead? Well there are plenty of them to fear – young men with all their lives ahead of them do not go down into the darkness reconciled.”

Pat Barker Quote: “I’d been kind to Ismene- or I thought I had, but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”

73. “I’d been kind to Ismene- or I thought I had, but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”

Pat Barker Quote: “My two older brothers died beside him. I don’t know how my third oldest brother died, but somehow or other, whether by the gates or on the palace step, he met his end. For the first and only time in my life, I was glad my mother was dead.”

74. “My two older brothers died beside him. I don’t know how my third oldest brother died, but somehow or other, whether by the gates or on the palace step, he met his end. For the first and only time in my life, I was glad my mother was dead.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Something else, something I couldn’t put my finger on, had made me turn back. Perhaps no more than a feeling that this was my place now, that I had to make my life work here.”

75. “Something else, something I couldn’t put my finger on, had made me turn back. Perhaps no more than a feeling that this was my place now, that I had to make my life work here.”

Pat Barker Quote: “Zijn dood is door de goden bepaald. Nu wijst het hem elke ochtend alleen maar op de kostbaarheid van het leven dat hem binnenkort zal worden afgenomen.”

76. “Zijn dood is door de goden bepaald. Nu wijst het hem elke ochtend alleen maar op de kostbaarheid van het leven dat hem binnenkort zal worden afgenomen.”

Pat Barker Quote: “You’ll get your chance. One day. And when you do grab it with both hands.”

77. “You’ll get your chance. One day. And when you do grab it with both hands.”

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