Marius Gabriel > Quotes

“We’re each on our own tightrope. All we can do is pick one another up after we fall.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“He turned to Isobel. ‘How about you, Frau Hitler?”
― Marius Gabriel, Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

“In my experience, the unmarried women are the smartest.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“Kindness is the currency of humanity”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“And yet there is space for human creativity to creep between those iron bars. We bend them, we slip through them from time to time.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“Love meant knowing you could be broken into pieces again, at any time.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Original Sin

“If people don’t change their minds, there’s no hope for the human race.”
― Marius Gabriel, Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

“First love is never forgotten,’ she went on. ‘It’s the only love that remains fresh and potent for a lifetime. It’s the truest and most innocent of loves, exactly because it can never come to fruition. Do you understand what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly.’ ‘It never grows old; you see? It’s as fleeting as the morning dew, yet it clings to us all our lives.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“She wondered whether Pearl wasn’t right in her dire warnings that this relationship with Suzy would change her forever. It probably would. But perhaps she wanted to change. What else was life all about?”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“Germans, had been deluded by a strident call to patriotism, and had become the weapon of an evil government with fearsome ambitions. He’d believed in Hitler’s ranting. He’d believed the potent, endless propaganda spewed out by Dr Goebbels. It had blinded him to the truth. It had been persuasive, but it had been a sham, a lie. And now Germany faced a reckoning for the terrible things it had done. The Thousand Year Reich, which had lasted eleven years so far, was not going to give in without a bloodbath.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“very poor men are seldom bad. And that very bad men are seldom poor.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Original Sin

“Heidi,”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“Men always imagined they were undemanding and easy-going; but it soon turned out that the going was only easy if it went their way.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“You don’t know nothing about me. Or the life I’ve had. You’re so quick to judge, like all the other women. Women are the worst, you know. Worse than men. I think it’s because, secretly, they all know in their hearts they could be me.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“expectantly,”
― Marius Gabriel, The Girls in the Attic

“The fear and uncertainty are among their most effective weapons. People vanish without trace. Those who love them are left to dread the worst. It ensures compliance.”
― Marius Gabriel, Goodnight, Vienna

“Being brave doesn’t mean not being frightened. Being brave means carrying on even though you are frightened.”
― Marius Gabriel, Goodnight, Vienna

“Childhood is an enchanted kingdom. Once we leave it, we can never go back. We can never understand it again. No matter how we may yearn to.”
― Marius Gabriel, Goodnight, Vienna

“In our law, a slave was a thing.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Testament of Marcellus

“But I think I’d rather be alone than be hurt all the time.’ ‘Loneliness hurts, too,’ he said quietly.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“Her emotions were complex. And they went far deeper than learning she was an Aries, and not a Virgo.”
― Marius Gabriel, The German Daughter

“The flowery scent of the new perfume Tian had designed – to be called ‘Miss Dior’ after Catherine”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“When You Are Old’ by W. B. Yeats, which appeared in 1892.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“This will be the age of Dior, ma petite.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“Some of the people who’ll applaud loudest tonight are the same people who broke your arm in 1938, and would have sent you to be exterminated. Doesn’t that strike you as ironic?

Gretchen’s eyes darkened, and a shadow passed over her face. She touched her right arm for a moment with her fingertips; then the shadow was gone. ‘That’s just how the world turns. It doesn’t matter, you know. You can’t live in the past.”
― Marius Gabriel, Goodnight, Vienna

“I have never been beautiful, not even when I was young, when most people have some brief flowering. I never had such a flowering. I was always dull and plain. I remain dull and plain.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“New ideas are so important. The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Designer

“That Hitler had surrounded himself with thugs and murderers had cast a darker shadow on the years that followed. But”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner