The German Wife Quotes

“What’s done is done. It’s the future that matters.”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“We live in extraordinary times,' he murmured into her hair, 'where morality, duty and human decency are in short supply. I am surrounded at work by immense cruelty and it's because of what I see each day that I feel this is the only sensible course of action. I love you more than life itself, and it's because I love you that I can bear this. Just try... not to love him too much - and come back to me when it's done.”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“Exhausted suddenly, she sat down heavily at her dressing table and studied her face in the mirror. She felt angry, but also impotent, trapped in a marriage with a man she no longer recognised. A man who had concealed from her the hideous work he was involved in - a man who had become a monster”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“I'm not prejudiced,' replied Elisabetta. 'I discriminate... there's a difference, you know”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“Hurrying into the medical block, he felt a combination of horror and shame. This was not what he had signed up for. He had thought he would be allowed to do some good for mankind. But in fact he was just part of a brutal killing machine”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“Medical research was always a balancing act between potentially harming a few in order to protect the many”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife

“They had buried her mother eight years before in the same graveyard, and had never spoken of it again. It had been his way of coping, she had supposed - to bury his feelings along with the body, and just get on with it. Now, with her father gone, she wondered if his way of grieving had been the right way. Perhaps it was better to let the pain come to the surface and deal with it, head on”
― Debbie Rix, The German Wife