Home > Author > Joseph Kanon

Joseph Kanon QUOTES

Joseph Kanon QUOTES

1 " tryst. "

― Joseph Kanon , Istanbul Passage

2 " He was the first young man Alex had met since he arrived, all the others buried or missing, irretrievable. Then a few dragging steps and Alex saw why: a Goebbels clubfoot had kept him out of war. "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

3 " The light now a line of vanishing dolt, like tracer bullets. "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

4 " How does anyone sleep?"
"You don't hear them after a while," Martin said." You get used to it."
Maybe Martin had, new to Berlin. But what about the others, who remembered huddling in shelters every night , waiting to die, listening to the engine sounds how near?-the whining thrust as the nose was pulled up, free of the weight of it bombs, now floating somewhere overhead. "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

5 " They stay for each other .The Americans don't leave because the Russians-"He stopped. "But of course they'll have to. It's not reasonable,"he said, a French use of word. "Why would the Russians stay? If Germany were neutral. Not a threat anymore. "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

6 " You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them. "

― Joseph Kanon , Istanbul Passage

7 " Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them. "

― Joseph Kanon , Istanbul Passage

8 " reality itself become something random, inexplicable. "

― Joseph Kanon , Stardust

9 " Durak,” he said, spitting it. When "

― Joseph Kanon , Istanbul Passage

10 " One thing you learn in police work is how to wait. Now you, you hate to wait. You'd make coffee nervous. "

― Joseph Kanon , Los Alamos

11 " Maybe,” Sasha "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

12 " in wool skirts and thin shapeless cardigans. “You know who’s also here? "

― Joseph Kanon , Leaving Berlin

13 " he realized that this visit, all his visits, were really trips to a cemetery, paying respects at the grave, the way they had visited his father’s, flowers in hand, his mother solemn, Leon bored and uncomfortable, not knowing, as he did now, that she wasn’t visiting his father but some younger part of herself, what she used to be. "

― Joseph Kanon , Istanbul Passage