What Once Was True Quotes

“People escaping from occupied areas of Europe were coming back with horrific stories of people being rounded up—Jews, gypsies, and others. It was hard to imagine such a cultured and educated society as Germany being led by someone like him,”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Germany was brought to its knees after the last war, blamed for it, though we were not the only ones. And then someone like Hitler comes along, he fixes the economy, puts everyone back to work. Suddenly, we have cars and holidays, and we get to hold our heads up again. It’s not surprising he is so popular.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“He’d heard rumours of contacts between them and the IRA, but the Germans would be very foolish to trust the IRA to deliver anything in their current state.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Your girls don’t know what it was like for us—they just see adventure and romance and medals. It is the same in Germany. They cannot wait to sign up, follow Herr”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Aisling”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“War is as much about intelligence as it is about guns and bullets.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“You can, my love, I know you can. And when you can’t, I’ll be here, and you can fall into my arms just as you’ve done since you were born, and I’ll carry you.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“You will survive his loss. It will hurt like hell for so long, and you’ll wonder if you’ll ever smile again, but I swear to you, just ride it out,”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“ha-ha,”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Stay loyal to each other, keep talking, and when you fall out, as you will, remember he is your home and you’re his.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Marriage is a great cure for love,”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“A secret is something you tell one person at a time.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“how she despised damp, cold, inhospitable Ireland”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“Old age really was most dispiriting. At fifty-five, everything sagged so badly, which was quite unfair when she’d taken such care of her skin in her youth. Her hair was thinning, but she just couldn’t bear to cut it. She’d worn it long all her life, though nobody ever saw it these days, since she’d kept it in a low bun on the nape of her neck for decades now. Her once glittering blue eyes had dulled, and the svelte figure of her youth had become that of a thin middle-aged woman.”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True

“when they were on about”
― Jean Grainger, What Once Was True