“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.'
'Of course it will, Erik.'
'He has never yet been wrong!'
'A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good!”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-"
Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kissed his brown cheeks and his broken nose and then his mouth. "I love you, Lloyd," she sad madly. "I love you, I love you, I love you."
"I love you, too, Daisy," he said.
Behind her, Daisy heard Ethel's wry voice. "You do remember, I see.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“You’re a queer?”
“That’s exactly what I am. I didn’t choose to be.”
After a while Woody put his arm around Chuck’s shoulders.
“Well, what the hell,” he said. “At least you’re not a Republican.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote”, Ethel said crisply.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“This is amazing,” Volodya said. “He’s the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!”
“Something like that,” Woody said. “We call it democracy.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: ‘So far, so good.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“After the Battle of Midway it was clear that the Pacific war would be won by planes launched from ships. Both Japan and the United States began crash programs to build aircraft carriers as fast as possible. During 1943 and 1944, Japan produced seven of these huge, costly vessels. In the same period, the United States produced ninety.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: “It worked.” Oppie said: “Yes, it worked.” The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“No candidate is perfect' said Lloyd. 'It's how you deal with your weaknesses that matters”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“If you don’t take an interest, then what happens is your fault.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: “It worked.” Oppie said: “Yes, it worked.” The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England's postwar government expects his grandparents to be pleased that the local aristocrat's garden is commandeered to allow the people to get coal underneath. Instead, the grandparents grieve because the garden represents something more than a resource to be divided. It is a symbol of community and beauty.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Desperate men are dangerous. And I do know that the United States is not ready to go to war against Japan. Our navy isn’t ready and our air force isn’t ready.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“Weißt du denn nicht, dass du die Seele verlierst, wenn du die Wahrheit über dich selbst abstreitest?”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
“You’d be surprised. Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases.”
― Ken Follett, quote from Winter of the World
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“a pamphlet detailing emergency procedures for everything ranging from poisoning to nerve gas attacks.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Spy School
“Their mother, Maxine Kettle, is president of the Australian Mothers of Multiples Association, a regular speaker at events for mothers of twins and triplets, and author of the book Mothering Multiples: The Heaven, the Hell, which has sold in countries around the world. Their father, Frank Kettle, is a well-known Sydney property developer. Their parents divorced when the girls were six.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Three Wishes
“Why?” I slammed my fists down on the table. “Why can’t you believe me? Why don’t you trust me?”
“Because you’re human, Cécile. You can lie, even to yourself.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, quote from Stolen Songbird
“It was amazing how our minds crafted stories for strangers who probably needed love more than our close-minded judgments.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, quote from The Air He Breathes
“And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good ones, through despair and through exhilaration, in love and out of love, for just now or for forever. Here we come. It's our parade.”
― Nina LaCour, quote from You Know Me Well
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