quotes from a novel

Regeneration by Pat Barker was a recommended novel because it's about a doctor who dealt with trauma during world war 1.

Here are 2 quotes I liked from 1991 Plume addition.

"He disliked the term 'male mother'. He distrusted the implication that nurturing, even when done by a man, remains female, as if the ability were in some way borrowed, or even stolen, from women--a sort of moral equivalent of the cauvade. If that were true, then there was really very little hope." p. 107

"Men said they didn't tell their woman about France because they didn't want to worry them. But it was more than that. He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to be known as deeply as possible. And the two desires were irreconcilable." p. 216