The Wartime Book Club Quotes

“BANNED BOOK It was poet Otto Heine who wrote in 1821, “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” In 1933, his books were burned on Nazi book-burning bonfires.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“When we ban books we are declaring certain people to be unacceptable. When we ban books we shut down conversations. When we ban books we let the bullies win. —Elana K. Arnold”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Albert Einstein’s The Theory of Relativity was banned by the Nazis, who enlisted 100 authors and scientists to denounce him.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Albert Einstein’s The Theory of Relativity was banned by the Nazis,”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“A refusal to believe her own hardship is more important than others,”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“it was then she realized, readers weren’t reading a book, they were inhabiting a whole new world.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“rain had died off and the Milky Way stretched overhead like a chiffon scarf.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club

“It was better to die in pursuit of freedom than live a life of degrading subjugation.”
― Kate Thompson, The Wartime Book Club