“Thanks to my grandpa, I can go to France and not be visiting Germany. He single-handedly won WWII (he only has one hand).”

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”

“...I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany.”

“I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you.”

“For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France.""But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland.""Precisely," said Jace.”

“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”