The Pursuit of Pearls Quotes

“Führer Kontakt it was called, an intense magnetic hold that made the person with him believe, just for that moment, that he or she was the only one in the room. A hypnotic force that dazzled, empowered, and enslaved.”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“Even the famously unsporty Hitler liked to carry a riding whip in his hand.”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“SHE WALKED DOWN THE great stuccoed apartment blocks of the Kurfürstendamm, now decorated with antiaircraft guns pointing into the porcelain-blue sky.”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“All the dangerous glamour had been swept up by the broom of National Socialism,”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“She pictured the diaphanous wings of flies glittering like cut coal in the air above her friend’s body.”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“passing bars belching beer breath through open doors”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls

“She could feel the emotion in the place pressing up against the walls, all eyes alert, hearts beating as one, the sense that everyone there was part of something bigger than themselves. That was a powerful emotion. It was the emotion that the Third Reich relied on. It was the kind of emotion that could move mountains.”
― Jane Thynne, The Pursuit of Pearls