“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“Frau Lange, her chins and her dog were waiting for me on the same chaise longue, except that it had been recovered with a shade of material that was easy on the eye only if you had a piece of grit in there on which to concentrate.”
― The Pale Criminal
― The Pale Criminal
“Oh do not let the Dead March play O’er these at Madingley do stay For they were young and old-style gay, Play their music of the day; Tunes of Dorsey, songs of Bing, Let them hear Glenn Miller’s swing Then too the crosses well may sway With those at Madingley do stay.”
― Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
― Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
“She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.”
― If The Dead Rise Not
― If The Dead Rise Not
“(The Big Lie, always delivered in a prolonged scream, was a winning Hitlerian tactic, usefully adapted by all kinds of governments ever since.)”
― A Stricken Field: A Novel
― A Stricken Field: A Novel
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