A Farewell to Arms Events Quotes

Chapter 2

"Priest every night five against one." (2.14)

Chapter 4

"And why didn’t you marry?" "I don’t know. I was a fool not to." (4.55-56)

Chapter 5

I leaned forward in the dark to kiss her, and there was a sharp stinging flash. […] "I’m so sorry," she said. I felt I had a certain advantage. (5.52)

Chapter 6

"You don’t have to pretend you love me." "But I do love you." (6.44-45)

Chapter 8

I had treated seeing Catherine very lightly, I had gotten somewhat drunk and had nearly forgotten to come but when I could not see her there I was feeling lonely and hollow. (8.89)

Chapter 9

The medical captain, "What hit you?" Me, with the eyes shut, "A trench mortar shell." (9.167)

Chapter 10

"We are war brothers. Kiss me good-by." (10.70)

Chapter 11

"But there in my county it is understood that a man may love God. It is not a dirty joke." (11.72)

Book 2, Chapter 13

"[My legs] are full of trench-mortar fragments, old screws and bedsprings and things." (13.62)

Chapter 14

"Ho ho ho," he tried to keep from laughing. "When I tell him you were not an Austrian. Ho ho ho." (14.37)

Chapter 16

"You’re such a silly boy." She kissed me. (16.20)

Chapter 17

"But watch out you don’t get her in trouble. You get her in trouble and I’ll kill you." (17.25)

Chapter 18

"I only wanted to for you." "There isn’t any me. I’m you. Don’t make up a separate me." (18.21-21)

Chapter 19

"I’m afraid of the rain because I sometimes see me dead in it. […] And sometimes I see you dead in it." (19.137-138)

Chapter 21

"The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent." (21.92)

Chapter 22

"I suppose you can’t be blamed for not wanting to go back to the front. But I should think you would try something more intelligent than producing jaundice with alcoholism." (22.18)

Chapter 23

"What’s the matter, darling?" "I never felt like a whore before." (23.143)

Book 3, Chapter 25

"Oh yes. All my life I encounter sacred subjects. But very few with you. I suppose you must have them too." (25.85)

Chapter 27

"I have a bottle apiece to take in the cars," Aymo said. (27.115)

Chapter 28

"No danger of ─," using the vulgar word. "No place for ─" (28.17)

Chapter 32

Lying on the floor of the flat-car with the guns beside me under the canvas, I was wet, cold, and very hungry. (32.1)

Chapter 34

"We’re happy," Catherine said. "You’re a sweet Fergy." (34.58)

Chapter 37

"Nonsense. Rowing in moderation is very good for the pregnant lady." (37.53)

Book 5, Chapter 38

"No, let it grow a little longer and I could cut mine and we’d be just alike only one of us blond and one of us dark." (38.143)

Chapter 41

"It’s just a dirty trick." "You dear, brave sweet." (41.270)