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The Borrowed House
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Hilda van Stockum840 ratings, 4.18 average rating, 80 reviews
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“It is much easier to believe lies than the truth."
"Why?" asked Janna.
"Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.”
― The Borrowed House
"Why?" asked Janna.
"Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.”
― The Borrowed House
“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”
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― The Borrowed House
“How will I ever learn the truth then?" asked Janna despondently.
"The way other people learn it, " said Hugo. "Do you think newspaper reporters find it easy to learn the truth? They may have to interrogate many liars, sift the facts, and draw their own conclusions. Or judges.... think of their difficulties, yet a human life may depend on what they decide. Then take scientists, how many years of patient observation it takes them to find out the tiniest truth about our universe. You want to be spoon-fed. You've just learned that you may not have the true idea of what is going on, and you want to spend no thought and effort on it yourself. That's a bad attitude. There's a library full of information right here... with enough books in German for you to do some research. Besides, your Dutch is getting good. You have brains, use them.”
― The Borrowed House
"The way other people learn it, " said Hugo. "Do you think newspaper reporters find it easy to learn the truth? They may have to interrogate many liars, sift the facts, and draw their own conclusions. Or judges.... think of their difficulties, yet a human life may depend on what they decide. Then take scientists, how many years of patient observation it takes them to find out the tiniest truth about our universe. You want to be spoon-fed. You've just learned that you may not have the true idea of what is going on, and you want to spend no thought and effort on it yourself. That's a bad attitude. There's a library full of information right here... with enough books in German for you to do some research. Besides, your Dutch is getting good. You have brains, use them.”
― The Borrowed House
“It is much easier to believe lies than the truth.” “Why?” asked Janna. “Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she’s a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard.”
― The Borrowed House
― The Borrowed House
“If you come back I’ll show you a secret,” said Heinz.”
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― The Borrowed House
“Mother,” said Janna, “if the Frosches were here first, why do they have the fourth floor? Why did they not take the one we have?” “The Baron arranged it all,” her mother said curtly.”
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― The Borrowed House
“She’s wearing one of the dresses of ... of the people ... who lived here before.”
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― The Borrowed House
