The Pilot's Girl Quotes

“It's not because I'm weak; it's because children are different: children are not meant to die”
― Catherine Hokin, The Pilot's Girl

“You have choices, Hanni. You don't have to let the past rule the rest of your life”
― Catherine Hokin, The Pilot's Girl

“Freddy knew that wasn't fair, but Freddy didn't care about fair. What he cared about was having someone else to blame but himself for his carefully constructed walls collapsing. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Freddy had walked everywhere side by side with his ghosts. There had been days when they were more real than the people actually surrounding him. In the end, that had almost derailed him, so - with a lot of time and a lot of pain and a lot of practice - Freddy had learned to control the mess the war had made of his life and to lock his family away as deeply as he had done with Buchenwald”
― Catherine Hokin, The Pilot's Girl

“Killers inserted themselves into the places where they killed. They left something, or they took something; they made their presence felt”
― Catherine Hokin, The Pilot's Girl

“Tony had hated that. He had wanted to kill the psychiatrist who had dealt with him after the Berlin bombings for saying it. But he had wanted to go home, that was true. Not to find the Mullers anymore. Tony had done his research after the war's end - he knew that they were gone, on trains, to camps, into hell. So not to find the loved ones he had lost but to make his birthplace pay for all it had stolen”
― Catherine Hokin, The Pilot's Girl