Name: Slaughterhouse-Five
ISBN: 9780385333849

Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present

Or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-dance with Death

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

Macy HB

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love. 

lulu

Avery

It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman should be given a second chance.

He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.

There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: he wahe was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interested to hear and see.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. 

It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. 

Iris van der zanden

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

„Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?“ What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. […] And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.

He said that everything there was to know about life was in „The Brothers Karamazov“ by Feodor Dostoevsky.

He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with  everybody he met. He thought that might make the world a slightly more pleasant place to live in.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

Slaughterhouse-Five Or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-dance with Death