The Man From Berlin Quotes

“You talk to me of choices?’ said Reinhardt. ‘I only know that the choices life makes you take strip away the person we wanted to be. Builds us up into something we never wanted. Until you look back on life, and you see that the track of your life is a scar that hides what might have been.”
― Luke McCallin, The Man from Berlin

“things”
― Luke McCallin, The Man from Berlin

“any case, happiness did not mean conversation. Neither he nor Claussen had exchanged more than a couple of words since they left, but there was a comfort in that silence that he was loath to break for the sake of mere speech.”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin

“What made me this way? Life, I suppose. Choices.” Reinhardt paused, looked down. “Maybe I would say everything good in my life happened to me despite me. And nothing bad happened that I should not have been strong enough to prevent.”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin

“What, if any, of those things defines me more than another? I say none of them, and all of them, and if anyone has to choose, it is me. I am what I chose to be, not what others want me to be. I am a Yugoslav. This is my land. I have nowhere else to go. That is a little of what I know.”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin

“You talk to me of choices?” said Reinhardt. “I only know that the choices life makes you take strip away the person we wanted to be. Builds us up into something we never wanted. Until you look back on life, and you see that the track of your life is a scar that hides what might have been.”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin

“Builds”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin

“The two of them headed over the narrow road and away from Vukic’s house. The houses up here were beautiful,”
― Luke McCallin, The Man From Berlin