When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

by Alice Hoffman

When you write it down, they cannot pretend it never happened.

Hate had become legal; it was everywhere.

Oma had warned her that the worst things happened when you least expected them, they came the way a hard rain fell, when you had your eyes closed, when you were too busy thinking about other things.

and when some people are less than others, and only a select few have rights, anyone who doesn’t belong can never be safe.

“It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance.”