All My Love, Detrick Quotes

“In the heavens a symphony began to play as the angels and fates smiled down at the lovers.”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick

“Love could be risky—it could make one vulnerable. In the past, he’d never allowed another person into his life for fear it would weaken him. Now he wished for the comfort of holding someone in his arms and knowing that it mattered to another person if he lived or died. Thoughts”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick

“Ada had impressed Karl the moment he’d seen her and heard her speak. Her presence had drawn a small pencil mark upon his mind that grew into an entire book of drawings as the week progressed. He gave a great deal of thought to what her life might entail. Could she be Finkelstein’s wife or girlfriend? Karl thought he'd had contact with all of the inhabitants of the ghetto at one time or another when he’d sold his black market goods, but he’d never seen Ada before. If he had, he would certainly have remembered. Everywhere he went he kept watch for the lovely girl with the fiery-red hair. But he never saw her, and could not even speculate on who to ask concerning her whereabouts. So Karl continued to wonder. One”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick

“On September 15, 1935, the Nuremburg Race Laws pertaining to the Jews came into being. Now, all Germans of Jewish decent lost their rights as citizens. Later, they would lose their rights as human beings. Aryan women could no longer be employed as household help by Jewish families. And the law clearly stated that marriage or sexual relations between a Jew and an Aryan were strictly forbidden and constituted a criminal act.”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick

“our people have sacrificed to be Jews.”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick

“reputation of strength, which he never”
― Roberta Kagan, All My Love, Detrick