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“When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped---”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of World War II. Of the 125,000 of Berlin's civilians who died in the Russian attack, 6,400 were suicides;”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The president didn't ask me any questions. But I'm glad he didn't, because I was so shocked watching him that I don't think I could have made a sesible reply.' He turned to look Byrnes squarely in the eye. 'We've been talking to a dying man.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.'
'What agreement?'
'The Berlin Agreement,”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army uniform--they would start screaming hysterically.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“It was like my body knew instantly that he was mine and that I was his.”
― Fisher Amelie, quote from Vain
“Maven Calore is not his own self. He told me as much. He is a construct, a creation of his mother's additions and subtractions. A mechanical, a machine, soulless and lost. What a horror, to know that someone like this holds our fates in the palm of his quivering hand.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from King's Cage
“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
― Sylvia Plath, quote from Ariel
“You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.”
― Raymond Chandler, quote from Farewell, My Lovely
“You bite your lip, and I want to take that lip into my mouth and suck on it like popsicle. I want to lick your lips and bite them and kiss you until you're fucking lost and gasping and puddled on the floor.” Well...shit. I want that.”
― Jasinda Wilder, quote from Falling into You
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