The Deadly Hours Quotes

“The idea of an unstable buffoon like Hitler managing to seize power in the first place is far-fetched,” said Jude, setting the shadow box aside. “Yet it happened.” “It happened.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“She said, “Do you believe in God?” He was silent for a moment, considering his answer. “I honestly don’t know. As some sort of celestial manager? No. As a greater good to which we should all aspire? Perhaps. The problem is, as a species we seem to fail far too often. Spectacularly.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“The world is never really safe. It’s simply an illusion each generation creates for itself, only to be stunned when it all falls apart again—usually worse than the last time.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“I think it helps the spirit of the universe, the…the common chord of our shared humanity. There’s too much that is horrible in our world right now. We all need to do our part to come down on the side of good and light.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“And always it is better to prevent than to lament.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“Men with power write the histories that survive”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“How had it happened? she wondered, her throat closing painfully with grief and despair. How had a country as cultured, civilized, and prosaically sane as Germany allowed itself to fall under the spell of a fast-talking charlatan who seduced them with empty promises and twisted their fears and anger into a lethal hatred directed toward society’s most vulnerable members? How?”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“How had a country as cultured, civilized, and prosaically sane as Germany allowed itself to fall under the spell of a fast-talking charlatan who seduced them with empty promises and twisted their fears and anger into a lethal hatred directed toward society’s most vulnerable members? How?”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“A fearful eye thou hast… So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” —Shakespeare, King John: act 4, scene 2 February”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours

“The world is never really safe. It’s simply an illusion each generation creates for itself, only to be stunned when it all falls apart again—usually worse than the last time.” He came”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Deadly Hours