His Majesty's Hope Quotes

“Pull yourself together. You can have a nice big breakdown after you get back to London.…”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“The Aryans—athletic like Goebbels, slim like Göring, and blond like Hitler.” Maggie”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Patience attains all that it strives for. He who has God finds he lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“pack.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“What if God is asking where are we?”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Let nothing disturb thee,” he intoned, reciting the prayer of St. Teresa: “Let nothing dismay thee. All things pass. God never changes.” His fingers pressed against the urn’s sides. “Patience attains all that it strives for. He who has God finds he lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“something is worth doing at all, it is worth doing right.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,” she prayed silently, “from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.…”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“The Germans are God’s chosen people and Hitler is our Savior! We don’t need churches and priests and ministers telling us what to do anymore.” He looked back to his comrades and began chanting: “Hang the Jews! Put the priests against the walls!”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“What goes ninety-nine”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“thump, ninety-nine thump, ninety-nine thump?” Gretel shrugged. “A centipede with a wooden leg, of course!”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“The ground was marked with chalk squares for the children’s hopping game Heaven and Hell. Boys and girls were playing, throwing a small stone, then hopping on the chalked squares, trying to make it from one end to the other and back again.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“There is nothing more deadly than an angry Nazi—remember that—you’re not killing a person, you’re killing a Nazi. A Kraut. A Jerry.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“There is nothing more deadly than an angry Nazi—remember that—you’re not killing a person, you’re”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Because the only safe enemy is a dead enemy.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Johnny Ramensky—released from prison to do his part for the war effort”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Let nothing dismay thee. All things pass. God never changes.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true. The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret Service reveled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with cold and silent passion. —Winston Churchill”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“In the higher ranges of Secret Service work, the actual facts in many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent,”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race. There must be no half-measures. —Adolf Hitler”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them
a second time.
—Elie Wiesel, Night”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Gottlieb pulled away from her. “God may have drawn back from the world, to give us free will. The problem of evil may be helpful, perhaps even necessary, for our spiritual development. Just as Christ’s Crucifixion was necessary for His resurrection.” His face was bleak. “I”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“Goethe’s Faust, Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“They’re Jews, Maggie realized. She had heard about the deportations of Berlin’s Jews to ghettos and work camps, of course. Still, that was nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to seeing it for herself. Another”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“I am a Jew who fornicated with an Aryan woman. I deserve to die. In front of the soldiers, a woman was on her knees, weeping, wearing only her underwear. One of the men was cutting off her long golden braids with a straight razor, leaving her almost bald.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“I am a Jew who fornicated with an Aryan woman. I deserve to die.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope

“a priest. Since Kristallnacht, he prayed publicly for the Jews every day at evening prayer, and was under constant surveillance by the SS.”
― Susan Elia MacNeal, His Majesty's Hope