Quotes from Pam Jenoff

His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr

mantra that "I can write through anything" to

Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed. Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.

There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War. We would survive this, too.

he says at last, bidding me good evening as though it were

You kept this from me." "I didn't include you," he corrected. As if that made a difference.

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Alguien que no me abandonará?, pienso para mis adentros y deseo volver a ser joven, porque entonces tal vez lo hubiera creído.

If not for the second-worst mistake of Grace Healey's life, she never would have found the suitcase.

No me he permitido pensar en esas cosas, sabiendo que, si me permitiera siquiera un goteo de recuerdos, me ahogaría en una marea que sería incapaz de frenar.

Kriegler's assertion that the Germans had told London

La sua premura è una goccia d'acqua, però, incapace di riempire l'oceano di vuoto che ho nel cuore.

Freedom is where you find it," my father often said when I complained. Papa had a way of seeing the world exactly as he wanted. "The greatest prison is in our mind.

empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even

rousing myself from my memories.

Simon and I are like young children I have seen in the park sitting beside each other in the sandbox but playing alone, not interacting. Two people living separate lives in the same space.

one ever seems to actually do anything but talk. Watching the bureaucracy, it is easy to understand how Hitler was able to walk over Europe while the West dithered.

There was gray everywhere.

My eyes begin to sting. I brush my hand across them impatiently. Crying isn't going to help. I have to figure out what to do.

rid of the Jews and turned them in to the Germans

birthday celebration made up of the Jewish child we are hiding, my husband's aunt who is sheltering us, and the Nazi she is protecting us from, who happens to be my lover. The irony is really too much.

I near the practice hall and pause, trying to push down my dread. Though I have trained with Astrid every day, I still have not let go and flown. Each day I wait for her to give up and tell me to leave. Come back tomorrow, she simply says

But in her grief, I saw the richness of their marriage