A Quiet Flame Quotes

“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn’t a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren’t true often turn out not to be false.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“After all”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“All newspapers are fundamentally fascist”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“Sometimes the worst has to happen before you can hope for the best? That’s the only reason anyone is going to vote for the Nazis.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“How did it ever get to be that bad? I think something happened to Germany after the Great War. You could see it on the streets of Berlin. A callous indifference to human suffering.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“the things you thought weren’t true often turn out not to be false.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“All Germans carry an image of Adolph Hitler inside them....Even ones like me, who hated Hitler and everything he stood for. This face with its tousled hair and postage-stamp mustache haunts us all now and forevermore and, like a quiet flame that can never be extinguished, burns itself into our souls. The Nazis used to talk of a thousand -year empire. But sometimes I think that because of what we did, the name of Germany and the Germans will live in infamy for a thousand years. That it will take the rest of the world a thousand years to forget. Certainly if I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never forget some of the things I saw. And some of the things I did.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“The colonel stood up. “I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There’s even a welfare state. Of course, the people are entirely European in origin. I believe they exterminated all the Indians. As a German, you should feel very much at home there.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond’s quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“You talk like the Nazis were going to win the election, Bernie."

"I keep hoping they won't. And I keep worrying that they might. But I've got seven loaves and five fishes telling me the republic needs more than just a lucky break this time. If I wasn't a cop, I might believe in miracles. But I am and I don't. In this job you meet the lazy, the stupid, the cruel, and the indifferent. Unfortunately, that's what's called an electorate.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“Uki Goni’s excellent book The Real Odessa for much of my information about Nazis in Argentina.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame