Ice Brothers Quotes

“The Eskimos have a saying,” Swanson continued. “On the ice all men are brothers.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“We have tried to make the Eskimos hate the Germans. It is hard for them to understand. There isn’t really a word for hate in their language.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“Did the Germans have such ridiculous problems while they waited in the shadow of sudden death? Paul guessed that they probably did. The possibility that they were sitting around praying was small”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“marriage had not turned out to be the long sexual revel he had imagined it to be. A lot of it had been that mysterious tension and fights.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“On such occasions Flags often played the harmonica, and the men sang to the plaintive tones of “The Wabash Cannon Ball” or “You Are My Sunshine,” which somehow seemed the theme song of the Greenland Patrol.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“When, on the eighth day, he retired to his cabin and let his executive officer pilot the ship toward a distant mountain peak for a full hour without supervision, Paul felt as though Harvard had just granted him a doctoral degree. Even the fact that the captain shouted at him worse than ever when he returned after a brief nap did not dim his sense of accomplishment.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“This airbase, probably all Greenland officers’ clubs, were absolute heaven for a man who really understood poker and bridge.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“Even with an understanding of Mowrey’s growing madness, Paul still found it difficult to accept the fact that the captain’s anti-Semitism now embraced radar, which correctly or incorrectly, he assumed to be the work of Jewish scientists. It wasn’t long before Mowrey was referring to radar as “Jewish magic,” or “The Jew Box.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“He realized that if he seriously wanted to pursue his dream, he should forget her, but that was impossible—when he came right down to it, he had to admit that even if he had to take a dull job,”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel

“Forgotten now and little honored then, but still They’ll never have to wonder if they’re men.”
― Sloan Wilson, Ice Brothers: A Novel