The Other Way Round Quotes

“But soon they began to arrive in large numbers both by day and by night. It was unnerving, as you went about your business, to listen to the sound of the engines which might cut out at any moment. You prayed for the buzz-bombs to keep going, but felt guilty while you did so because you knew they would only fall on someone else. And the fact that the war might soon be over made everyone wish, quite desperately, to stay alive.”
― Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“It turned out that no one in the house had spent a night in London since the beginning of the air raids, and they asked her endless questions as though she were some strange creature from another world. The maharajah, if he was one, kept saying, terrible, terrible, and how did people survive, which was silly, thought Anna, for what else could you do if you had no choice”
― Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“There was a crash, closer than the rest, which shook the building and as Anna felt the floor move a little beneath her the word “bombardment” came into her mind. I’m in a bombardment, she thought. I’m lying on the floor of the Hotel Continental in my pink pyjamas in the middle of a bombardment.”
― Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“They listened to them screaming down from the sky. One…two…three…four very close – five and six, thank goodness, receding. Then there was another plane and another – it can’t go on like this, thought Anna, but it did.”
― Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“1942.”
― Judith Kerr, Bombs on Aunt Dainty