All Quiet On The Western Front Book English 소설 & 이야기

*****************************POV: Rowe************************ --- There were two kinds of quiet in the world. The first kind was peace—when birds sang, the air breathed easy, and the sun rose without hesitation. The wind howling like the only thing we needed at the moment. And the second? The second kind of peace was war. The kind that settled over everything right before the shot. The air stilled. The insects stopped. Even your heartbeat dared not make noise, as if sound alone might be the trigger.

Chapter 28: The Price of Victory Lillias’ POV The battlefield had fallen silent, save for the labored breaths of the wounded and the soft whimpers of the survivors. It was a fragile peace, one that had been earned through bloodshed. The scent of blood hung thick in the air, mingling with the burnt earth and the faint traces of smoke still curling up from the remnants of destroyed homes. Victory had come at a great cost.

And all. "Let's go." And went to his car first. I took a deep breath and did nothing but obey. When we got on board, no one said a word until I fell asleep. But before I fell asleep, I felt someone kiss my head and whisper something.

progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> The valley was quiet in the way that valleys were quiet after everything had been spent. Not the silence of absence — the silence of presence. Thousands of wolves standing in the specific, collective stillness of people who had been at war and had been given the morning and were not yet certain what to do with it. The dawn moving through the valley in the specific, unhurried way of light that had no agenda except to arrive.

Time for you to leave. Jennifer's complexion went as pale as a sheet.

The clinic always felt too quiet in the mornings, as if silence seeped down from the ceiling tiles and settled over everything. Lola Smith could hear the hum of the lights, the slow whir of the automatic doors, even the soft scrape of her own shoes across the polished floor. She didn’t mind the quiet, not really. But on certain days, when her thoughts were too loud, she wished for more noise—anything to drown out the feeling that her life was idling in neutral.

He flipped the light bar off, plunging us back into the grey dimness of the storm. "You're getting good at that," he said, his breathing finally beginning to level out. "At what?" "At the 'Dirty' work," Enzo said. I looked down at the Red Ledger. My knuckles were white where I gripped the leather. I wasn't the "Boring" girl who worked for a tech startup anymore. I was the woman who had just blinded a man so her husband could ram a truck. "It says here... 'The Quiet,'" I read, squinting at the page as a neon sign from a passing liquor store illuminated the text. "What is 'The Quiet'?"

Elijah’s pov I’d never known quiet to feel so loud. The hush that settled over the war camp in that fleeting moment before dawn pressed on my ears like a physical weight. Every breath I drew tasted of frost and tension, and in the distance I could hear the low murmur of our warriors. Henry’s phalanx lining the eastern pass, Liam’s scouts crouched in the western shrub, and Theo's silent archers perched high on the ridge to the north.

He pauses, his small face lifting, his bright eyes locking onto mine. And then, he smiles. A little wave. He sees me. “I love you, Zachy,” I whisper. He must hear me as the little smile that splits his chubby face is full of love and happiness. He turns back to his book, content. The wind tugs at me, carrying me higher, beyond the packhouse. I float over the battlefield. Bodies are strewn like fallen leaves; the scent of blood thick in the air. The fighting rages, fierce and unrelenting.

Chapter 2 Alexander's POV They always called me the quiet one, the one with too much ink and too few words. But silence had a way of teaching you things, it taught you how to listen to what people didn’t say. It taught you how to read the cracks in a smile or the way someone hesitated before telling the truth. It taught you how to hear the shift in the wind. And tonight… the wind was screaming,not literally though. It felt off in a kind of way, like the world was holding its breath, waiting for something to go wrong.