Quotes from Bruce Marshall

Young woman, I think that there are at least two things more irritating than a lighter which won't work in a train on a long journey. One of them's being disembowelled by the Gestapo, and the other's being talked at by you.

You see, sir, politics have changed since before the war. Before the war the reds were seditious and the blacks and the whites were loyal, but now the reds have won the war and so they're loyal and the blacks and the whites are seditious, and now we've got to stamp out their political opinions, although we've still got to respect them, too, because that's democracy.

She cannot be allowed to go on staying in Rome, exercising what you of all people ought to know are subversive activities. Just imagine for a moment what might happen to the world if she succeeded in getting the Pope to make some great galumping statement which would make the Russians religious. Stalin would never forgive us.

So this is what life is really about, Twingo thought as he listened, living and dying unto God. He had seen men die on the battlefield, torn apart in a burst of entrails, and God hadn't seemed to have much to do with it, but Schwester Kasimira, reading away holy German words out of her big book, seemed to know that even those untidy deaths had been died unto God.

Even after he had met Maria, life hadn't been much about God, but only about Maria herself and kissing her under the brim of her wide white hat; but now that she lay there dying because she hadn't wanted to go back to Russia, the world was all about God and he didn't think Schwester Kasimira and the nuns silly any longer.