"But I will not go further that way; for that is the fate of all of us: if Kemmerich's leg had been six inches to the right; if Haie Westhus had bent his back three inches further forward"
Paul Baumer chap. 9 pg. 223
This is a quote when Paul Baumer is feeling remorse after killing a man in atrench hole, and how he must save himself from that betraying pain of having killed someone with his knife, with his own hands. And how he wishes that the man had been running two yards to the left so that instead of being dead he'd be writing a letter to his wife, and if only Paul had impressed the way back to the trenches better that man could have had thirty more years to live...
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to a single sentence: All Quiet on the Western Front."
Narrator chap. 12 pg. 296
This quote is possibly the one that impressed me the most, because it is a turn that I don't think anybody was expecting, and is just shocking. I really don't know how to experess this in a more fluent way, but it was just breath-taking, shocking and unexpected. I applaud Erich Maria Remarque for this quote, and this book as a whole, for it is a masterpiece.
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