Quotes from book

City of Thieves

“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”

“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?”

“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

“You're a writer. Make it up.”

“What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.”

“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”

“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”

“I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.”

“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye…”