Eoin Dempsey > Quotes

“Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“The only way to get over the last fall is to jump back on the horse and keep riding.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“The true patriots were the ones with a healthy suspicion of the government and every motive it acted upon.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“The Aryans were a made-up race of blond supermen, which the Nazis had convinced the German people they belonged to.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“It’s never too late, not while you’ve got breath in your lungs and life within you.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Because I needed to be valuable again. I needed to do something useful, something good.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“What is an Aryan?” he would ask the group. “Blond like Hitler!”—who had dark hair. “Tall like Goebbels!” someone else would say—Goebbels was five feet five. “A perfect athletic specimen like Goering!”—who was a disgusting, fat slug.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Books from the school library that were deemed subversive were taken out, piled high, and burned in the yard. Franka asked the librarian what they had taken and was told that the local party members had removed any books, fact or fiction, that expressed a liberal idea, or suggested that the people themselves, rather than the führer, should control their own destinies.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Culture” became a dirty word.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“He had been too good, too pure for the sewer of prejudice and hatred this country had become. This country wasn’t for angels anymore. Only those twisted by hatred and fear could prosper here now.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Hatred, malice, vindictiveness, and spite—the emotions that formed the bedrock of Nazism”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“The only thing to counter pain is healing, and the only way to heal is to let go of the hatred and to forgive.”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“being loyal isn’t a one off. It’s a lifetime bond.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“The German citizenry ceded absolute power to Hitler and his Nazis without so much as a whimper.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“We all deal with things in different ways.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“understand one day. We all marry”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“she didn’t react. “It will pass,” Rebecca assured him. “It will all be over by Christmas.” He took another swig of beer. He knew”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“It’s time to move on. Everyone has a past. That’s what we are, but it’s our future that counts more, what we aspire to be. That’s all we can control.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Instead, the three Ks were drummed into girls from an early age: Kinder (children), Kirche (church), and Küche (kitchen).”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“My name is John Lynch,” he said. “I’m from Philadelphia”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Several girls she knew had already reported their parents.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Why did you rescue me?” “Because you’re a human being, and I’m a nurse. That’s what I do.” “But you risked your life for a stranger, and a Luftwaffe flier at that.” “I needed something.” “We all do,” John said,”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“cacophony”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“A man with no loyalties other than his work was a dangerous one.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“There was little time. Wasting time on questions would cost Werner Graf his life. She thought of his wife and daughters, innocent of the crimes he might have committed on behalf of the Reich. She wasn’t carrying much herself—just the loaded revolver. It was all she thought she’d need tonight.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“It was a warm September day and Christopher felt a bead of sweat run down his back. His new uniform was painfully tight around his shoulders. Somewhere there was a band playing. He could hear the strains of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, faint on the wind.”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“He tried not to think too much; thoughts would only lead to worry and worry was a waste of emotion.”
― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys

“Hitler had found his first supporters—disenfranchised soldiers, rejects, and castoffs of a society”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“found that by forgiving them, I held the ultimate power,”
― Eoin Dempsey, Finding Rebecca

“She thought of the Allied airmen dropping the bombs, wondered if they knew what they were doing, who their bombs were killing. Were they war criminals, as most of the people in the air-raid shelter would testify? Or were things like accountability for war crimes decided by the victors?”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest