So Much Owed Quotes

“From the outside, it was barely recognisable. Gaping holes in the walls and piles of smoking rubble had irrevocably altered the once imposing facade of l’Hôpital Saint Germain. The Allied propaganda machine had claimed the Battle of Amiens as a great victory – a turning point, spelling an end to the horrific futility of trench warfare. It was here in Amiens, the victors crowed, that the Germans had stumbled their first steps towards surrender. Yet as Dr Richard Buckley picked his way through the decimated city, he saw nothing about Amiens to suggest a city basking in the glory of victory. Instead, he found himself thinking: So this is what winning looks like. He”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“She made it all sound so logical and simple.”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“Yet the main distraction from her own sorrows came in caring for James and Juliet. She was deeply grateful that the endless demands of two such healthy infants gave her so little time to brood over all she had lost. The”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“All the members of the Poitiers Gestapo, along with high-ranking army officers and their French girlfriends, ate, drank, and sang with such gusto it was hard to imagine there was a war on at all, let alone one they might very conceivably lose. Juliet studied the over made-up faces of the women and feared for them. She would not like to be in their shoes when the liberation finally came. The local people, after suffering years of deprivation and abuse, saw them as unpatriotic whores–‘horizontal collaborators’ was the term used. When the time came, these women would pay dearly. Spitz was holding court, swilling claret, a scantily-”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“they were Wrens and when she’d looked bewildered, they’d explained it stood for the Women’s Royal Naval Service.”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“the British people that they were at war, once again, with Germany. That was a month ago. The ‘Phoney War’–as it was being called on the wireless that she and Auntie Kitty listened to each night before bed.”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed

“Of course, initially, some people in the annexed areas will be a bit disgruntled, they are bound to be, but they are being elevated to the culture of the people of the Third Reich. This Lebensraum is necessary for the further development of Germany, something that has been denied us since 1918. This is the nation that produced Wagner and Dürer and Nietzsche. There will be a period of adjustment, of course, but in the end, the Führer is, in fact, doing these people a favour.”
― Jean Grainger, So Much Owed