The Uniform Quotes

“Would German soldiers and citizens remove their masks if the war ended, or would they go down with their ship?”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“These fragments of normal life were regularly crushed by contact with David's fellow labourers. People who once carried themselves with style made do with hair hacked into stubble. Men who wouldn't step outside without a splash of cologne before the war now endured the sour stink of their neighbours unwashed bodies.”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“When you've worn a target on your back for as long as the Jews had, it can be difficult to divine the difference between garden variety prejudice and catastrophe.”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“It's a terrible thing to cage a man, to steal his hope.”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“The mysteries that drew David to medicine - the illnesses, injuries and decay - left evidence he could track and causes he could puzzle out. The answers gratified him. So would feeling like a man of importance”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“After five years of this, he couldn't afford the burden of hope. Why hope for a future beyond that moment?”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“In that world, ethnic malice cut far deeper than everyday insult. It cost people freedom, homes, families and lives,”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“Dead partisans rarely have much to share in the way of useful information.”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“The war even forced hardship on many not-so-ordinary people including prosperous families who had their comforts and privileges stripped away by state-imposed sacrifices”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform

“How could a man possibly sound more alive when talking about death?”
― G. Gruen, The Uniform