Red Gold Quotes

“When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold

“He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold

“He got off in a nondescript district in the 15th. Just outside the exit, an arrest in progress. The Gestapo at work, he suspected. The men in suits, standing to one side, were Germans. They watched as French policemen led a line of men and women out of an apartment house, a long chain encircled their waists and they wore handcuffs. The Gestapo men were silent; speculative, watchful. It wasn’t quite so easy as it used to be, being German in Paris.”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold

“But the world doesn’t run on logic”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold

“But the world doesn’t run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather.”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold

“What has become of the adventures of the heart?
Killed by the dark adventures of existence.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE”
― Alan Furst, Red Gold