Private Peaceful quote

I chose the book Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. I love many of his books. The quote i chose was ' I find myself suddenly on my knees and I don't know why. There is blood pouring down my face and my head is wracked with a sudden burning pain so terrible i feel it must burst. I feel myself falling out of my dream down into a world of swirling darkness. I am being beckoned into a world I have never been to before where it is warm and comforting and all-enveloping. I know I am dying my own death and I welcome it.'

I love this quote because it is so desperate that he wishes for death to come (he was in the trenches of WW1). He left his quiet little village to escape the fact that he was in love with his sisters girlfriend, he went to war to forget it all.