Stay Where You Are And Then Leave Quotes
"Every night before he went to sleep, Alfie Summerfield tried to remember how life had been before the war began."
"I’m sure you can. You’re a bottomless pit, Alfie Summerfield. I don’t know where you put it all. Honest, I don’t."
"Happy birthday, son. What age are you now anyway, twenty-seven?"
"I’m five," said Alfie, who couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be twenty-seven but felt very grown up to think that he was five at last."
"If anything, we should be doing our best to have a good time today."
"We’re finished, we’re all finished!" cried Granny Summerfield.
"Leave him be," she shouted, running down and jumping in between the Janáčeks and the soldiers. "He just told you that he’s not German, and anyway, he’s lived here for years."
"No, but they’ll be kept safe while the war is on."
"I do my best for you. You know that, don’t you?"
"You’re nine years old now. A little cooperation is all I ask for."
"We all have to pitch in. I wouldn’t ask you if I had time to do it myself."
"Today, however, wasn’t a Monday and it wasn’t a Thursday, so there would be no history and there would be no reading."
"It’s his European blood. On the continent, men take pride in their appearance."
"We need food. Alfie, we’re perilously close to penury. Perilously close."
"You’ll be a fine man one day, Alfie Summerfield. Just like your father. He’d be proud of you if he were here with us now."
"It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb."
"It’s kept me out of it for the last two years."
"God, Margie, what am I doing here? It’s awful. And I’ve done terrible things. Can’t live with myself sometimes. I think of you and—"
"They say we’re getting closer to the Belgian lines, but it’s hard to believe we’re getting closer to anything."
"There’s only one in five stretcher bearers make it through the night."
"There’s all sorts going on out here now, Margie. Eight different battalions all mixed together."
"Seems to me if he was alone and unarmed they should have taken him in. There’s rules, isn’t there?"
"What is he now, eight? He must be all grown up. Wouldn’t recognize him."
"They said it’d be over by Christmas. They just didn’t say which Christmas."
"Of course he’s all right, Alfie. Why wouldn’t he be all right?"
"It's always going to be over by Christmas. But what was it Georgie had said in one of his letters? They just didn't say which Christmas."
"Everyone cheered wildly. 'We will win this war with honor and bring our boys home!'"
"I mean, my teacher was sick. So we were given a half-day's holiday."
"I don’t believe a word of it. But we won’t fall out over a little white lie."
"You give a quality shine too, I’ll give you that."
"Politics should be about doing things, though, not just talking about doing things."
"When will this blessed war be over? And please don’t say by Christmas."
"It will be over within the week or it will drag on interminably."
"The very model of a perfect British prime minister."
"She wants to be the prime minister. Herself."
"If you don’t get out of this house right now, Sam Patience, I’ll split your head in two. Do you hear me?"
"You’re going to be right as rain, and in the future you’ll look back on these days and wonder what you were so upset about. Everything, Cecil, is going to be all right."
"It makes me feel old, that does. I can’t believe how grown-up you’ve become."
"We have happy times ahead of us. These last few years have been good, haven’t they?"
"I don’t think I really like birthdays, to be honest."
"I don’t think I’ve ever really thanked you, have I, Alfie? For coming to find me in the hospital. For breaking me out."