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“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Smell the soup, cool the soup,” Timby said. “Huh?” “It’s what they teach us in school when we’re upset. Smell the soup.” He took a deep breath in. “Cool the soup.” He blew out.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Lale’s memories were, on the whole, remarkably clear and precise. They matched my research into people, dates, and places. Was this a comfort? Getting to know a person for whom such terrible facts has been a lived a reality made them all the more horrific.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz By Heather Morris & Milkman By Anna Burns 2 Books Collection Set

“Yes I don’t like to live here,’ she said, more to herself than me. Then she turned toward me: ‘But if I have learned anything from my life, it’s that since I don’t belong anywhere, only the movement matters.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“The two women have to tear her from the dead body of her child whom she is clutching to her breast. S. tries to pry away her hands, but the woman is too strong. They wrestle silently for a moment. S. gives up. Why wrest the child away from her? The woman needs time to realise that they are surrounded by death, that this is what the camp fence defines, a demarcated territory where death reigns supreme.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, S.

“The smell of deathly fear starts spreading from the still living person the moment the entire body knows that this is the end, although the mind keeps on hoping.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, S.

“But the soldiers are no longer people either, except they are less aware of it. they too are prisoners without any individuality, without a face. Their bodies, their willpower belongs to somebody else—to the army, to the leader, to the nation. They obey and execute the orders of people in whom they believe or are afraid of. For a moment, standing there at the doorstep of the 'women's room', they believe that they are something else. The masters. Do they know that they cannot run away from the war, that they cannot hide, that they too can be killed.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, S.