Skeletons at the Feast Quotes

“She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast

“All the other males—even the boys Theo’s age—were already growing into blustering strongmen. Powerful Aryans who didn’t dare admit to anyone that they just might be scared.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast

“Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast

“When this war was over, he and his family--all Germans--were going to have to live with the black mark of this (whatever this was) for a long, long time.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast