Checkpoint Charlie Quotes

“It was a crude destructive attack without any of the clandestine finesse that usually characterized warfare in our field — it was as if someone had decided to conclude a game of chess by blasting all the pieces off the board with a fire hose.”
― Brian Garfield, Checkpoint Charlie: Stories

“Then for the first time he smiled. Myerson’s smile would frighten a piranha. It meant only that he hoped I would end up in trouble to my hairline. As I went to the door he said to my back, “You’ve got to go on a diet, Charlie. You hardly fit through doors any more — you haven’t got any sideways.” He was still smiling — a wicked glitter of polished teeth.”
― Brian Garfield, Checkpoint Charlie: Stories

“You’ve been there before?” “Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program.” Ross was intrigued; he’s still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. “What’s it like up there?” “The end of the world.”
― Brian Garfield, Checkpoint Charlie: Stories

“I scowled. “Attu has been of utterly no importance to anybody since May 1943. Is this your version of sending me to Siberia? What are my transgressions?”
― Brian Garfield, Checkpoint Charlie: Stories