It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
She honestly wondered sometimes which fate was worse, death or standing behind a curtain and looking out at the street at all the things you felt you could no longer have.
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
We're so far away from those stars
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here.
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
I'm sorry! It's just that it hurts so much and it never stops!
Elizabeth BergTag: world-war-2
That they were torn from mistakes they had no chance to fix; everything unfinished. All the sins of love without detail, detail without love. The regret of having spoken, of having run out of time to speak. Of hoarding oneself. Of turning one’s back too often in favour of sleep. I tried to imagine their physical needs, the indignity of human needs grown so extreme they equal your longing for wife, child, sister, parent, friend. But truthfully I couldn’t even begin to imagine the trauma of their hearts, of being taken in the middle of their lives. Those with young children. Or those newly in love, wrenched from that state of grace. Or those who had lived invisibly, who were never know.
Anne MichaelsTag: holocaust world-war-2
Future generations would be convinced that nothing good could ever have existed in a country that produced such evil. They would think only of these evils. It would be as if these unleashed dark forces had grotesquely marched like devils on dead horses, backward through the gash in the present, and had destroyed the German past too.
Eric MetaxasTag: consequences world-war-2
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls."
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.
Tag: politics world-war-2 munich-agreement neville-chamberlain-appeasement
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