The Kommandant's Girl Quotes

“I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl

“Unpredictability is the best part of life,” he had said. “The surprise of who or what might be around the corner, it’s what keeps us going.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“he says at last, bidding me good evening as though it were”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl

“Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed.

Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl

“for many hours. “He didn’t”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“Sometimes, like after recently learning about Margot, it is easy to despise him. Other times, though, when we lay in the dark and his uniform is gone, he is just a man who brings me pleasure and comfort. I can almost forget who he is, who we both are. Almost.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“When one is trying to stay afloat in deep water, one grabs at any stick that is offered—and tries not to notice that the stick is in fact nothing more than a wisp of a reed, practically useless in the strong current.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“birthday celebration made up of the Jewish child we are hiding, my husband’s aunt who is sheltering us, and the Nazi she is protecting us from, who happens to be my lover. The irony is really too much.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“It’s as though for just a few minutes her flawless exterior cracked open a bit, and I could see the love and hurt inside.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl

“empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl: An Unforgettable WWII Historical Fiction Story of Survival and Betrayal

“governor’s office,” Diedrichson says solemnly without”
― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl