Ellie Midwood > Ellie's Quotes

“They. His own superiors became “they” to him. The alien side, the hostile side. Somehow, in the middle of this war, he switched fronts without realizing it fully.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“he was a beautiful, almost breathtaking masterpiece of a man, in which some higher power forgot to put a soul.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Who would have thought that words could hold so much power, to stir so much hatred that it would eventually lead to genocide? I, for one, had always believed that we, the human race, were better than that.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Today they’re ordering you to marry, tomorrow they’ll hand you a machine gun and order you to start shooting people randomly, how about that?”
― Ellie Midwood, The Austrian: A War Criminal's Story

“It was so easy to decide their fate, when they were nothing more than numbers on the sheets, presented to us for a signature by our adjutants. Now they were real people, with broken lives, torn families, and memories which would haunt them for the rest of their lives.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Austrian: A War Criminal's Story

“Is it too much of a sin, my desire to be loved?”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“Giselle wasn’t quite a people person.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“You both have the same goal, not to get caught in the past again, only you both chose entirely different paths to that goal.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“which was unusually quiet without Messerschmitts cutting through the butter of clouds”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“Often we follow conventions that don’t suit us personally, and slowly lose ourselves in the rotten swamp of public opinion, dissolving, falling apart until nothing is left of us.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Indigo Rebels

“I looked at him. He sat in the darkness, with his brows knitted tightly together, as though trying to grasp something, to understand the inconceivable, to pinpoint the moment when everything suddenly got out of control and the point of no return was officially passed by both sides – the future murderers and their victims. The new Reich sorted us into two kinds and now he suddenly found himself among those who held an ax above our miserable heads.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“That’s not socialism; that’s called regular human decency, if that notion is new for you!”
― Ellie Midwood, The Violinist of Auschwitz

“there are no Jews and Poles here, no French and no communists, there are only SS and inmates, and that’s what it all comes down to. We’re all equally nothing to them. Do you consider yourself superior to Violette because she’s a Jew and you’re a Pole?”
― Ellie Midwood, The Violinist of Auschwitz