Sharon

“Sometimes Stout felt he was fighting another war entirely, a war within a war, a backward-circling eddy in a downward-rushing stream. What if we win the war, he thought, but lose the last five hundred years of our cultural history on our watch?”
― Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History

“I was just a kid then, twenty years old, and without any real plan, trying every angle I could to make my way through life and too dumb to know any better. I wasn’t really making much headway. But though I was striking out, I learned a valuable lesson. It didn’t matter what the art was. All that mattered was the signature.”
― Tony Tetro, Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

“If she had to pinpoint the one change in London since she had been imprisoned that had struck her most”
― Fergus Craig, I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home

“Nazis liked to keep things simple. He quoted Hitler: “The crowd will succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.”
― Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History