Fatherland 1994 Quotes

#1. It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.

Charles Dickens

#2. Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

Theodore Beale

#3. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Pierre Niney

#4. I find that women ... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. It's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

Zadie Smith

#6. He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload.

Ilona Andrews

#7. It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Adam Schiff

#8. werewolves were members of the old Danish families who owned slaves. Their transformation was God's punishment for their wrongdoings. You could spy their teeth and claws at night, even when they were in their human guise, so they often wore gloves and scarves, even in the hottest times of the year.

Alice Hoffman