Winter of the World
Ken Follett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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!”
“Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.”
“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.”
“Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?”
“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.”
“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
“You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote”, Ethel said crisply.”
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