Leaving Berlin Quotes

“He was the first young man Alex had met since he arrived, all the others buried or missing, irretrievable. Then a few dragging steps and Alex saw why: a Goebbels clubfoot had kept him out of war.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“The light now a line of vanishing dolt, like tracer bullets.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“How does anyone sleep?"
"You don't hear them after a while," Martin said." You get used to it."
Maybe Martin had, new to Berlin. But what about the others, who remembered huddling in shelters every night , waiting to die, listening to the engine sounds how near?-the whining thrust as the nose was pulled up, free of the weight of it bombs, now floating somewhere overhead.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

“They stay for each other .The Americans don't leave because the Russians-"He stopped. "But of course they'll have to. It's not reasonable,"he said, a French use of word. "Why would the Russians stay? If Germany were neutral. Not a threat anymore.”
― Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin