Hearts and Minds Quotes

“But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old and making it news; and used, too, to taking the new and making it old. Every glass of water from its taps, it is said, has passed six times through the kidneys of another, and every scrap of its land has been trodden on, fought over, dug up and broken down for centuries.”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds

“You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds

“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds

“It’s so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds

“I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds

“I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on”
― Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds