Midnight in Europe Quotes

“When a diplomat says ‘yes’ he means ‘maybe.’ When a diplomat says ‘maybe’ he means ‘no.’ But if a diplomat says ‘no’ he’s no diplomat.”
― Alan Furst, Midnight in Europe

“Stavros, beads of sweat on his face, held his girlfriend tight and stomped around the dance floor, doing his very own version of the beguine.”
― Alan Furst, Midnight in Europe

“Before the war, most of the hospital nurses in the city had been nuns but they had fled to Franco-occupied territory and the wards were now staffed by the prostitutes of Madrid—their hair growing out black because the city’s supply of peroxide was needed as antiseptic for the wounded.”
― Alan Furst, Midnight in Europe

“Fascism is a revolutionary force, it wants to destroy the established order and take its place—take its money, its businesses, everything it has because, to these people, the governing class in Europe is hesitant, ineffective, effete. So, destroy it.”
― Alan Furst, Midnight in Europe

“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before dawn, weary because he’d spent his life looking at the bad side of human nature and that wasn’t going to change.”
― Alan Furst, Midnight in Europe