14 quotes found
“He often came back all thinky from work.”
“Sometimes life isnt what we want, its what we get.”
“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”
“Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. Its only human nature”
“In wartime, she thought to herself, you dont call a death murder.”
“You couldnt predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.”
“It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on o...”
“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.”
“Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit...”
“The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.”
“Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.”
“The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.”
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then wed have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because theyre er...”
“People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.”
