Night Soldiers
A source page for quotes linked to Alan Furst.
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.”
“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”
“We are afflicted with a darkness of the soul and fall in love with our pain.”
“Live today, for tomorrow we die.”
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
“Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying”
“You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.”
“I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.”
“I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.”
“Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.”