Projekt 1065 Quotes

“I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Michael, it's terrible to say so, but sometimes you have to weigh the cost of one man's life against the value of an entire operation.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“It’s not who you’re fighting against that matters. It’s what you’re fighting for.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“An Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman meet a magical fellow at the top of a tall building. The wizard tells them that if they jump off the building, whatever they say while they’re falling will appear at the bottom. So the Englishman, he jumps off first, being the bravest of them of course, and he yells, ‘Pillows!’ and he lands on a big pile of pillows. The Scotsman jumps off next, and on the way down he yells, ‘Hay!’ and he lands in a big pile of hay. Last up is the Irishman, but he trips on the edge of the building right as he’s about to jump, and as he falls he yells, ‘Oh, crap!”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Maybe Horst really believed all that “might makes right” malarkey. Maybe he didn’t like an Irish boy showing up the German “master race.” Or maybe he was just a bleeding maggot.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“we’d stood up to Hitler and the Nazis with the rest of the Allies.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“were weren’t”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Because that’s what Nazi Germany was: the bully who found your most painful wound and poked at it with a stick.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“People didn’t just hand you their secrets. You had to go hunting for them.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“A girl from the Bund Deutscher Mädel, the girls’ version of the Hitler Youth, came and collected him.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“savaged him,”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“So, you’re English?” Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“It was a world war, and the fate of every nation on Earth, neutral or not, lay in the balance. When the war was over, the world would be ruled one way, or the other—by freedom or fascism, by hope or by fear. I had seen the depths, the lengths, the Nazis would go to win that war, sacrificing their own children to the cause, and I also knew firsthand the sacrifices the Allies had made to stop them. I”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“But this is—this is incredible!” Goldsmit stopped in an empty hallway next to a table with a vase full of edelweiss flowers. “Switzerland is neutral!” “Do you think the Nazis care?” I asked him.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Führer,”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Blitz.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

“Adolf Hitler was a few inches shorter than all of his guards. The first thing you noticed about him was his pale face and his long, ratlike nose with that bushy little mustache under it. His dark brown hair swept down across his forehead to just above his eyes, which were baggy and tired-looking.”
― Alan Gratz, Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II