Parallel Lives Quotes

“Grief”
― Peter Turnham, Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation, and a Love affair that transcends the ages.

“A nation of people stepped into the future as the ‘greatest generation’. If we are worthy of that accolade, then it is because we as a generation retain the memory of the worst disaster the world has ever seen. We know what future generations can never know. We know that democracy is the voice of the people. We know that those seeking to circumvent democracy do so for their own ends, not ours. Above all, we know that those who seek to impose their will are those who will wage war. Humanity’s greatest tragedy is that the wisdom of the ages dies with each generation. There will be another war generation, and they will see what we have seen. They will see the gradual decline of their democracy. They will see the power slipping through their fingers and into the hands of the new self-proclaimed saviour.”
― Peter Turnham, Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation, and a Love affair that transcends the ages.

“I say that, in the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we’ve done and they will say “do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straight forward and die if need be - unconquered.”
― Peter Turnham, Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation, and a Love affair that transcends the ages.