Leaving Tomorrow Quotes

“The War of Independence claimed the lives of six thousand Israelis, a thousand of whom had survived the Nazi genocide of the Jews.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Two weeks after the fledgling state’s founding, the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem surrendered.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“The Arab Legion soldiers isolated Jerusalem, depriving its Jewish inhabitants of food, water, and fuel.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Od lo avda tikvatenu: our hope is not lost.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Kadima, Kadima!” It means there is no time to look back, only ahead!”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Jonathan, why does the world still hate us?” “Victims must remain victims. In the world's eyes, victims can't claim sovereignty to their ancestral lands.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“It reminds me of a philosophy class I once took. The professor explained that the perversion of language was the first stage of annihilating a people.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“In the concentration camp, I learned the concepts of absurdity and arbitrariness.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Women compulsively washed their clothes to purge themselves of the homelessness that now defined them.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning

“Later, I heard that Patton considered us even less than that. To him, the Jewish refugees were “inferior to animals”—the world’s vermin.”
― Françoise Ouzan, Leaving Tomorrow: A Woman's Search For Meaning