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A review by donnaadouglas
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
3.0
It took me quite an age to get through this book - it's pretty hard-going - not unenjoyable, just heavy at times, perhaps due to its subject matter.
QUOTATIONS I LIKED:
"Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalise so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth - that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?"
"'I can scarcely bear to think of him,' I wrote, 'and yet I cannot bear to think of anything else. For the time being all people, all ideas, all interests have set, and sunk below the horizon of my mind; he alone I can contemplate, whom of all things in heaven and earth it hurts to think about most.'"
QUOTATIONS I LIKED:
"Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalise so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth - that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?"
"'I can scarcely bear to think of him,' I wrote, 'and yet I cannot bear to think of anything else. For the time being all people, all ideas, all interests have set, and sunk below the horizon of my mind; he alone I can contemplate, whom of all things in heaven and earth it hurts to think about most.'"