Yesterday's Paper Quotes

“It seems fantastical”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“behind”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Ugh, she’s too sweet to be wholesome.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“so Father Iggy especially is after losing loads of weight – even Pádraig O Sé says his shoes will last a bit longer now.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“We have campaigned, spoken at rallies. We have tried to tell the people what Hitler is like, what his real ambitions are, so’ – that Gallic shrug again – ‘if they come, it will be for us they look first.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“But neither of these men had sat at the dinner tables of the wealthy and powerful as Richard had and listened to the ‘America first’ rhetoric that was so popular.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“And then he spoke of the physically and mentally disabled, how Hitler’s ideas of the Aryan race did not include”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“When Paul spoke passionately about the need to defeat Fascism, he was articulate. He punctuated his rhetoric with examples he’d seen in Germany, about what daily life was like for not just Jews but trade unionists, communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“It is the love story of two different worlds, and the principal players are America and Europe. And Europe is the one sending the message across the ocean, addressed to the patron saint of hope and champion of lost causes. Impossible ideals, like democracy and freedom.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Is it possible to care deeply about a person you have never met, who lives far away on the other side of the ocean, who maybe speaks a different language, or who was raised in a different religion, who plays different sports? I used to think it wasn’t possible, but now I know I was wrong. Because, like the Atlantic Ocean, our common humanity unites us more than it divides us.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Is it? All men are the same underneath. Whether they’re off to make money or off to change the world, all they want is to have a little woman who waits for them until they graciously choose to reappear, and then they’ll let her fuss over him and make him a cocktail and warm his slippers or whatever it is she’s supposed to do to keep him happy, never mind if she’s happy or not.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“We really need to get this out there, Jacob,” I said. “People need to know this stuff.” The weird thing is, Jacob just shrugged. His usual passion, his burning determination to show the world what’s happening seemed dimmed, diminished. Replaced with a resignation, and a deep pain. “People won’t want to hear it,” he said quietly.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Unless the whole world sees the truth, and acts, it is Hitler who will prevail.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Hitler will not stop. This is why I have come here this evening, to explain. He will not stop. He wants every Jew—man, woman, child, every one of us—gone. He wants us gone from Germany, Austria, Europe, maybe from everywhere. He wants Jews gone from the face of the earth.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Hitler will not stop. This is why I have come here this evening, to explain. He will not stop. He wants every Jew—man, woman, child, every one of us—gone.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“The German people, all of them, they love this madman and they follow him. On Kristallnacht, over a year ago, they turned on the Jewish businesses, and everything I had was destroyed. My shops were”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“The Jews had been persecuted many times, in many countries, and I told my family this too would pass, that Hitler was a joke, that everyone knew he was a madman. Truly, that’s what I thought.”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“of”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper

“Declan walked her to the door,”
― Jean Grainger, Yesterday's Paper