Blood of Victory Quotes

“You did love me, Ilya. I wasn’t wrong about that, was I?” “With all my heart.” She smiled and closed her eyes. “Women like to hear those things. Always, I think. It always makes them happy, God only knows why.”
― Alan Furst, Blood of Victory

“Tukhachevsky told me that.” “Your commander?” “Twice. Outside Moscow in the revolution, then in Poland in ’21.” “And, for his trouble, shot.” “Yes. You were with the Whites?” “Damn my soul. Under Yudenich.” “Not the worst.” “Pretty close. I was sixty-two years old when they dragged me back into it, believed in order, in Christ our Lord, in life being as life had always been. I feared the rabble. I feared that, once the yoke came off, they would burn and murder. And then, in 1917, the yoke came off, and they burned and murdered. I was wrong on the scale of the thing, much grander than I ever imagined, but that’s an old man’s error.”
― Alan Furst, Blood of Victory

“Yes, one lied to them. Always. “Today a man talks freely only with his wife”—Babel had said that, the last time Serebin ever saw him—“at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.”
― Alan Furst, Blood of Victory

“After that, he walked and walked. Writing sometimes, staring at faces, adrift in unknown streets, far away on his own private planet. The world gnawed at you, he thought, better to be, now and then, elsewhere—it would all still be there when you got back.”
― Alan Furst, Blood of Victory