The Last Train to London Quotes

“My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“What a different woman she would be but for the good people in her life.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“How has Hitler convinced all of Germany that his lies are the truth and the truth is a lie?”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“The Zweig line he'd read the night before came to him: A thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“It was binary, the child had understood that. All of life was binary now. Right and wrong. Good and evil. Fight or surrender. War without the choice of neutrality this go-around.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“She turned to him, listening as closely as her parents had always listened to her. It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“Eichmann, seeing this would only go more poorly, asked Wisliceny for his opinion on the matter, subjecting himself to an overlong bit of wind and bluster backed by an utter absence of knowledge. He listened as he forever did, storing away bits for future use and keeping to himself his own advantages. This was his job, to listen and nod while others talked, and he was very good at it. He routinely shucked his uniform for street clothes in order to infiltrate and more closely observe Berlin’s Zionist groups. He’d developed a cadre of informers. He gathered information from the Jewish press. Reported on Agudath Israel. Quietly kept denunciation files. Directed arrests. Helped with Gestapo interrogations.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“But it makes no sense," she said, "Why would this one death in Paris spark riots throughout the Reich?"
"That's what I'm saying, Truus. It isn't the cause of the riots. It's the excuse. When Goebbels said they wouldn't hamper demonstrations, he was inviting this violence. It's what the Nazis do so well. They create a crisis--like they did with the Reichstag fire in '33--which they then use to increase their military control. They want every German to see the havoc they can wreak at the snap of a finger. They want every German to know the violence they can bring to bear on any single person for the slightest perceived offense, What better way to silence citizens opposing the regime than with the prospect that their resistance will jeopardize their families and their lives?"
"It isn't just the Nazis now, though. They're saying crowds of ordinary Germans have been flocking into the streets to gape at the wreckage and to cheer. 'Like holiday makers at a fairground,' Joop. Where are the decent German people? Why aren't they standing against this? Where are the leaders of the world?"
Joop said, "You put more faith in politicians than they warrant. They cower at the slightest threat to their power, although of course no one but Hitler has any real power in Germany now.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“Lügenpresse,” Hitler called the Austrian press who reported anything else. Lying press.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London

“we are never more easily deceived than when we are ourselves in the act of deception.”
― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London