For Those I Loved Quotes

“But the fight to survive grew harder and harder. Each time I returned, I found our prison mutilated, another quarter had died.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“Thus, several times a day, I'd change my face, name, personality, and language, but I always had to remain on guard, observing how I acted the Volksdeutscher or the hoodlum, and also keeping an eye on the enemy to decide what I'd have to do before he did.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“Selfishness was the weapon they'd given me, and I had seized it to use on them. For those I loved.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“They wanted us all dead, but they wouldn't have me and a few more with me. Father told me about Dr. Janusz Korczak's orphanage, and thanks to him, hundreds of children were avoiding starvation.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“Ashamed at not being able to stop it. Sometimes, I felt that I too ought to lie on the pavement, dying of cold and hunger.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“smile. Ashamed at not being able to stop it. Sometimes, I felt that I too ought to lie on the pavement, dying of cold and hunger.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“Everyone was trying to protect his property as best he could, clinging to the past for a few hours, to what made up his life.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved

“A family's a funny thing—never had I realized what it meant to me as I did then. The Gestapo could have tortured me. I wouldn't have given my father away. And when the man struck my mother, even though I didn't stir, I felt as if I were shrieking, going mad. A family was the whole world; now, because of them, that world was in little bits. In the nights, I thought about how one day I'd rebuild a world of my own, a family.”
― Martin Gray, For Those I Loved