Leaving Berlin Quotes

“He was the first young man Alex had met since he arrived, all the others buried or missing, irretrievable. Then a few dragging steps and Alex saw why: a Goebbels clubfoot had kept him out of war.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“Shabby suits and no stockings, but they had survived, waited in hiding or miraculously escaped, for this new chance, the idea the Nazis hadn’t managed to kill.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“They stay for each other .The Americans don't leave because the Russians-"He stopped. "But of course they'll have to. It's not reasonable,"he said, a French use of word. "Why would the Russians stay? If Germany were neutral. Not a threat anymore.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“How does anyone sleep?"
"You don't hear them after a while," Martin said." You get used to it."
Maybe Martin had, new to Berlin. But what about the others, who remembered huddling in shelters every night , waiting to die, listening to the engine sounds how near?-the whining thrust as the nose was pulled up, free of the weight of it bombs, now floating somewhere overhead.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“The light now a line of vanishing dolt, like tracer bullets.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“Maybe,” Sasha”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“in wool skirts and thin shapeless cardigans. “You know who’s also here?”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin