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“The Doctor: Amazing.
Nancy: What is?
The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says "No. No, not here." A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. I don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.”
― Steven Moffat

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
― Heinrich Heine

“War was funny like that: one minute you could try and block it and have the most wonderful thoughts, the next you were back in the nightmare.”
― Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express

“A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.”
― Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

“They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a boy. I had made it my own back then. I knew they couldn't capture my mind. Whilst I could still think, I was free.”
― Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

“It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.”
― Randall Wallace, Pearl Harbor

“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu. Had he been wrong about Japan not taking an offensive right now? God, he had thousands of men and women to think of, and he feared in his heart that it might not turn out the way he had seen it. He felt doomed, almost paralyzed by his gross miscalculation. He determined, however, that he would not let the word out about Pearl Harbor until he could meet with his American strategists and Philippine President Manuel Quezon.”
― Joyce Shaughnessy, Blessed Are the Merciful

“I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and then Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific [one of the places I grew up]. There I found the picture of 'the Father.' It was a real, gigantic Saltwater Crocodile (whose picture is now featured on page 1 of TEETH).

From that moment, 'the Father' began to swim through the murky recesses of my mind. Imagine! I thought, men confronting the world’s largest reptile on its own turf! And what if they were stripped of their firearms, so they must face this force of nature with nothing but hand weapons and wits?

We know that neither whales nor sharks hunt individual humans for weeks on end. But, Dear Reader, crocodiles do! They are intelligent predators that choose their victims and plot their attacks. So, lost on its river, how would our heroes escape a great hunter of the Father’s magnitude? And what if these modern men must also confront the headhunters and cannibals who truly roam New Guinea?

What of tribal wars, the coming of Christianity and materialism (the phenomenon known as the 'Cargo Cult'), and the people’s introduction to 'civilization' in the form of world war? What of first contact between pristine tribal culture and the outside world? What about tribal clashes on a global scale—the hatred and enmity between America and Japan, from Pearl Harbor, to the only use in history of atomic weapons? And if the world could find peace at last, how about Johnny and Katsu?”
― Timothy James Dean, Teeth

“Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.”
― Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill”
― Stuart Finlay, What Churchill Would Do: Practical Business Advice Based on Winston's WW2 Wisdom

“That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.��

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in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup”
― Steen Langstrup, The Informer

“If it were so simple, Goebbels wouldn’t have ordered me here , would he have? If books had no power, they never would have been banned.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books

“Because words form the foundation of society. Ideas create culture. Control them, and you can control . . . everything.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Collector of Burned Books

“I am reminded of an old Chinese curse I read somewhere: May you live in interesting times. I think of it and laugh. What a curse it is. Interesting times, indeed.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“I suddenly felt such conflicting emotions: anger at him, pity for us, regret for myself, and disappointment at the lost chance. Here, I suspected, was a great romance.”
― Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour

“Для кого-то война, убийство �� решение, но я к таким не отношусь, для меня, как для большинства людей, война и убийство �� вопрос, на который нет ответа, ведь никто не отвечает, если кричишь во сне.”
― Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

“Icarus made wings out of wax to escape a prison. But when he was outside for the first time in years there was the sun hanging up in the sky above him and he thought it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He flew closer and closer and his wings started to melt, but he didn’t give a good goddamn. He kept flying up until he couldn’t fly anymore, and his eyes were probably burning, and his skin was probably burning, but still he didn’t care. And then his wings melted all the way and he fell miles and miles into the ocean and brained himself on a rock, that poor stupid asshole. And I’ll tell you what: I’m no better. I’m no fucking better.”
― dropdeaddream, The Thirteen Letters

“The echoes of WWII remind us how easily humanity can slip into chaos when we fail to address the root causes of conflict and the vital importance of learning from history to build a better future.”
― Donald de Brier, The Delilah Enigma: An Historical Novel

“It was difficult sometimes, this job. It’s easy to think of the enemy as a shadowy figure until he’s a man bleeding on a cellar floor.”
― Ashley Weaver, Locked in Pursuit

“He says nothing; all that lies behind him; he is entirely alone now with his little life of nineteen years, and cries because it leaves him.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“They used to tie us to a tree, but that is forbidden now. In many ways we are treated quite like men.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“They’re skinnier and dirtier than I remember—walking skeletons with skin sagging from their bones. Souls staring out from their human remains, waiting to be released.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“It strikes me funny that at the end of life, it doesn’t matter what uniform we wore.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“We stumble into the road to stare after the truck. A few minutes later a few Filipino soldiers come marching in its wake, Farther on, someone’s blowing a whistle and I can’t believe what I’m hearing: ‘Cease fire, cease fire!�� It don’t seem possible that after the horror of all we’ve been through, a war can end with a whistle and two words”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“Ain’t no Army coming to save us. The war’s all turned to the Nazis now. President’s clean forgotten us. You and I don’t even exist”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home

“We didn’t come through hell just to die when it’s over. If we have to run�� if we have to swim off this island�� we’re gettin�� through this. The three of us�� all home alive. That’s our only aim from here on out.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee

“I’ve seen men sit down hard with bullet wounds, talk for a little while like they were only stunned, and die two minutes later. Soldiers blown to more pieces than can be scraped together in a box. Barrios of civilians bombed to nothing just because they were in the way.”
― Marcus Brotherton; Tosca Lee, The Long March Home