Quotes from Pam Jenoff

Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.

And Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something," he said with determination

We'll do anything to get rid of that excess hardware from the Cold War, and someday it's going to come back to haunt us.

Unpredictability is the best part of life," he had said. "The surprise of who or what might be around the corner, it's what keeps us going.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live.

Documentary crews and journalists are not an uncommon site in the lobby and hallways. They come for the stories, picking through our memories like rats through the rubble, trying to find a few morsels in the refuse before the rain washes it all away.

Estamos juntos solo porque queremos; es una relación que no está basada ni en un pasado común ni en promesas de futuro que quizá no podamos cumplir. La parte de mí que tal vez habría deseado algo más de un hombre murió el día que me fui de Berlín.

You reminded me who I used to be before the war. I want to be that person again.

I had assumed Herr Neuhoff had taken me in only to help the show, and perhaps as a favor to an old family friend. 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.

Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris.

for many hours. "He didn't

Sometimes, like after recently learning about Margot, it is easy to despise him. Other times, though, when we lay in the dark and his uniform is gone, he is just a man who brings me pleasure and comfort. I can almost forget who he is, who we both are. Almost.

have always needed to know.

Quieres a las personas por lo que eran antes, por encima del horror que las hizo comportarse como lo hicieron.

A veces la vida que imaginamos no dura tanto como creemos.

I'm not sure she's ready," Brian added, "to put someone else first.

Don't judge," I say, the rebuke in my voice sharper than I intended. "Sometimes the running just gets to be too much.

personal attacks on your opponent undermine your credibility with the court.

There is so little one can be certain of these days," he begins, voice wobbly. "But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path

makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.

It's as though for just a few minutes her flawless exterior cracked open a bit, and I could see the love and hurt inside.

When one is trying to stay afloat in deep water, one grabs at any stick that is offered—and tries not to notice that the stick is in fact nothing more than a wisp of a reed, practically useless in the strong current.