History's Pages Quotes

“Sometimes Grace thought the written word was even more important than the spoken word. Talking to someone in person was nicest probably, but there was a magic in the written word, the way you could return to it over and over again.”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages

“But what he was doing had to be done too. He and his colleagues from other American newspapers were here to tell what they saw – a small nation being battered daily but pulling together to defy Hitler.”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages

“It did feel strange to her, the way he spoke of the heroism and bravery of the English people, as if he liked them. They were the same people who burnt and raped and murdered here in living memory, led by Churchill.”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages

“They were used to this—it had been going on since September—and it really proved to me that humans can get acclimated to anything. Even this terror.”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages

“How can any sane government antagonise so many of its citizens and expect to be popular? I suppose it’s just a case that the hellish forces are unleashed now and there’s no stopping them. Once they have got rid of”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages

“There was a piece in a British newspaper about the persecution of Catholics in Germany, which was shocking. Nuns in Nazi prisons, priests in concentration camps, Catholic leaders shot, even cardinals being harassed.”
― Jean Grainger, History's Pages