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Slaughterhouse-Five

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And Billy zoomed back in time to his infancy. He was a baby who had just been bathed by his mother. Now his mother wrapped him in a towel, carried him into a rosy room that was filled with sunshine. She unwrapped him, laid him on the tickling towel, powdered him between his legs, joked with him, patted his little jelly belly. Her palm on his little jelly belly made potching sounds. Billy gurgled and cooed. — location: 1115 ^ref-65131

He knew he was going crazy when he heard himself proposing marriage to her, when he begged her to take the diamond ring and be his companion for life. — location: 1388 ^ref-35318

From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections! — location: 1416 ^ref-21055

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. Once this is understood, the disagreeable behavior of American enlisted men in German prisons ceases to be a mystery. — location: 1647 ^ref-25487

They were known everywhere to be the most self-pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war, said Campbell. — location: 1659 ^ref-9231

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love. — location: 1671 ^ref-20659

He was told not to find out what the lumps were. He was advised to be content with knowing that they could work miracles for him, provided he did not insist on learning their nature. — location: 1729 ^ref-46441

What the Englishman said about survival was this: “If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.” — location: 1829 ^ref-1436

The Englishman said that he, when captured, had made and kept the following vows to himself: To brush his teeth twice a day, to shave once a day, to wash his face and hands before every meal and after going to the latrine, to polish his shoes once a day, to exercise for at least half an hour each morning — location: 1833 ^ref-20965

the pea-shaped thing and the horseshoe-shaped thing. — location: 1897 ^ref-6708

two-carat diamond and a partial denture. — location: 1909 ^ref-13762

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. — location: 2030 ^ref-22121

Derby spoke movingly of the American form of government, with freedom and justice and opportunities and fair play for all. He said there wasn’t a man there who wouldn’t gladly die for those ideals. He spoke of the brotherhood between the American and the Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world. — location: 2035 ^ref-37715

nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race. — location: 2080 ^ref-21203

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way. — location: 2089 ^ref-4702