# Harry Turtledove - Quotes: 394 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove ## Books - [Agent of Byzantium](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/agent-of-byzantium.md) — 13 quotes - [American Empire: Blood and Iron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-blood-and-iron.md) — 39 quotes - [American Empire: The Victorious Opposition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-the-victorious-opposition.md) — 18 quotes - [Beyond the Gap](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap.md) — 25 quotes - [How Few Remain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain.md) — 44 quotes - [Ruled Britannia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/ruled-britannia.md) — 5 quotes - [Settling Accounts: Drive to the East](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east.md) — 44 quotes - [Settling Accounts: In at the Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-in-at-the-death.md) — 55 quotes - [Settling Accounts: Return Engagement](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement.md) — 51 quotes - [The Great War: Breakthroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-breakthroughs.md) — 31 quotes - [The Great War: Walk in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell.md) — 42 quotes - [The Guns of the South](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-guns-of-the-south.md) — 15 quotes - [The Man with the Iron Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-man-with-the-iron-heart.md) — 12 quotes ## Recently added quotes > There really was a German resistance movement after V-E Day. It was never very effective; it got off to a very late start, as the Nazis took much longer than they might have to realize they weren't going to win the straight-up war. And it was hamstrung because the Wehrmacht, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the Luftwaffe, and the Nazi Party all tried to take charge of it- which often meant, for all practical purposes, no one took charge of it. By 1947, it had mostly petered out. p. 531 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-man-with-the-iron-heart/there-really-was.md) > If they had lawyers instead of teeth, they’d be as bad as people. p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-they-had.md) > From what I’ve seen, people who brag a lot are usually trying to convince themselves even more than other people. p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/from-what-ive.md) > What will we do when they start capturing our people?" Klein asked. "They will, you know, if they haven't by now. Things go wrong." Heydrich's fingers drummed some more. He didn't worry about the laborers who'd expanded this redoubt- they'd all gone straight to the camps after they did their work. But captured fighters were indeed another story. He sighed. "Things go wrong. Ja. If they didn't, Stalin would be lurking somewhere in the Pripet Marshes, trying to keep his partisans fighting against us. We would've worked Churchill to death in a coal mine." He barked laughter. "The British did some of that for us, when they threw the bastard out of office last month. And we'd be getting ready to fight the Amis on their side of the Atlantic. But... things went wrong." "Yes, sir." After a moment, Klein ventured, "Uh, sir- you didn't answer my question." "Oh. Prisoners." Heydrich had to remind himself what his aide was talking about. "I don't know what to do, Klein, except make sure our people all have cyanide pills." "Some won't have the chance to use them. Some won't have the nerve," Klein said. Not many men had the nerve to tell Reinhard Heydrich the unvarnished truth. Heydrich kept Klein around not least because Klein was one of those men. They were useful to have. Hitler would have done better had he seen that. Heydrich recognized the truth when he heard it now; one more thing Hitler'd had trouble with. p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-man-with-the-iron-heart/what-will-we-do-when.md) > Believe worked well enough when a man could not measure it against facts. But when he could…Facts crushed to belief like a mammoth crushing a vole. p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/believe-worked-well.md) > “By God, you are a hateful man!” > > “Anyone who tells you anything you don’t want to hear is a hateful man,” Hamnet answered. p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/by-god-you.md) > If you were half as funny as think you are, you’d be twice as funny as you really are. p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-you-were.md) > Outside the building, Lou smoked a last cigarette and shot the shit with one of the German gendarmes who'd be taking over the place once the Americans were gone. Rolf was a pretty good guy. He'd been a corporal during the war- but Wehrmacht, not Waffen-SS. In his dyed-black U.S. fatigues and American helmet, he looked nothing like a German soldier. So Lou tried to tell himself, anyhow. "We will miss you when you go," the gendarme said. "You are the only thing standing between us and chaos." "You guys will do fine on your own," Lou answered. You always assured a sickroom patient, even- especially- when you didn't think he'd make it. p. 528 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-man-with-the-iron-heart/outside-the-building.md) > If barbarians recognized that they were barbarians, they wouldn’t be so barbarous any more. p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/if-barbarians-recognized.md) > What people believed often turned out to be true just because they believed it. Charlatans and mages were quick to take advantage of that. p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/what-people-believed.md) > He didn’t care what she thought, and, in not caring, he felt as if a curse were lifted from his back. p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/he-didnt-care.md) > Mosquitoes laid eggs in those ponds and then rose in buzzing, biting swarms. Sometimes the clouds of them were thick enough to dim the sun. It was as if the soul of a vampire were reincarnated in a million beings instead of just one. p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/beyond-the-gap/mosquitoes-laid-eggs.md)