‎Crooked Cross Quotes

“The country was like a person tossing in a frightened sleep, half conscious yet half unconscious of the nightmare into which, on awaking, it was to be so abruptly plunged.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“But to none of them, except perhaps to Helmy, did it seem definite that political events in Germany would conspire as they did to make the slur put on Jews not a mere idea of the moment, but a permanent handicap.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“But,’ she insisted, ‘does a thing like lecturing to the Workers’ Guild – even when he does it without a political point of view – matter more than the value of his work?’ ‘To the Party, yes.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“Helmy was thrown on his own resources; the resources which he found near at hand and ready to welcome him were those of the Nazi Party.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“Communists, filled with as intense excitement as the Nazis, had no time to notice the lethargy and tired indifference with which the bulk of the people regarded the political muddle.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross

“The flame of unrest was fanned by the careful attitude of newspapers, by spasmodic outbursts of lawlessness all over the country, and by the constant danger at all times to both Communists and Nazis. Sometimes it was a fight between two or three men; personal grievances to be settled, anger flaming up under insolent aggression. More often whole streetfuls of people were involved; instead of one or two deaths and a handful of men injured, the numbers would run to alarming proportions. Occasionally a whole town would be implicated. Quiet, non-political, peace-loving people waited behind closed doors for the shooting and the hurrying footsteps to cease; the streets were unsafe; the very nights were restless.”
― Sally Carson, Crooked Cross