"If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism."

"This was attributed to Trotsky in an epigraph in Night Soldiers: A Novel by Alan Furst but it may actually be a revision of a statement earlier attributed to Trotsky: "You may not be interested in the…"

"There was no way of getting love. If all you have experienced is humiliation and rejection, and your foster father forces you to fight back or get a beating from him, you look for any kind of lifeline…"

"I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words,…"

"He had looked forward to making posthumous reports to Illyan. Now he wondered if he was going to live long enough."