All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history.

“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”

“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.”

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”