Beauty-parlors Quote by Ingeborg Bachmann

“The freckle-faced corporal from Iowa grinned. "Geez, Major, whatever you gave that German broad last night sure got her talking. Was it some new…

— Joseph Heywood

“The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They’re normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can…

— Isabel Allende

“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words”

— Markus Zusak

“What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill…

— Liza Marklund

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born…

— Helen Grant

“At this point, I couldn't help it. I walked around to see her better, and from the moment I witnessed her face again, I…

— Markus Zusak

“As I waited, I flicked through a magazine in a futile bid to look occupied. It had the next month's date on the cover…

— Rosamund Lupton

“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been won, like…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I release Josef, who collapses to my feet, and confesses not just to all war crimes at Auschwitz but also for being responsible for…

— Jodi Picoult

“If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at…

— Thomas Keneally