City of Women

It’s easy to watch from a comfortable distance as people make choices with life-or-death consequences.

If you’ve learned anything—it should be how easy it is for people—for people to betray one another.

“someday you will open up your eyes and wonder what has become of your life. And the only answer will be that you have squandered it, trying to prove something to these men. These higher authorities of yours. Trying to elicit from them some minuscule measure of respect or equality, which you will never receive. Not ever.”

Hatred is too valuable a quantity to waste.

I can assure you, nobility is nothing more than an invention of the living to eulogize the dead. The dead are not noble. They are simply decaying in their graves.

Taking control of the center board from a distance, while fools rush in with their pawns.

An interesting way of winning a war, advancing by retreating.

Maybe there’ll be time for mourning when the war’s over, if any of us are left. But for now we can only keep moving.

You must live with a stranglehold on the world.

Well, what do you think a soldier is, Frau Schröder, but a killer in a uniform?