"The Plot Against America" Quotes
A chilling alternate history where Charles Lindbergh becomes the President of the United States and plunges the country into anti-Semitic turmoil.
fiction | 400 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you torture yourself over the future, you still don't know a single goddamned thing.
It is the powerlessness of the many against the few that is understood only by the few.
Fear preserves me from controlling my freedom.
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Many things in the world are not fatal.
I took the novel... as a way of trying to deal with the terrible unleashing of fear and sorrow and pity that had been let loose in the lives of the families informally as well as politically.
Hating and loving her go together.
Everything that happens is more or less accidental.
I dared neither to nurse this lie nor to challenge it.
To have refused the internal exile that was offered to us, to have insisted on integration, to have stayed and tried to make things work—well, that was that was the brave thing to do.
