Skylark Quotes

“Great tragedies don’t ask for great heroes. They ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Denial has always been the mind’s first line of defense against the unbearable.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“The bureaucracy of hatred spreads like infection.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Humans have always made marks. ... Maybe they hoped someone else would see their work one day, or maybe they just wanted something of themselves to last. .. I don't think we necessarily need to know what the signs mean. We can still be changed by the, what they left behind. Because it's still here.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“The elements don't remotely belong together, but somehow the combination is still interesting. Still curiously appealing. Alesander squints, looking satisfied as he examines their creation. "I probably couldn't spend hours discussing the brilliance or profundity here, nor would I want to. But it's fascinating that we can make meaning out o fragments. Even fragments we can't se e or don't understand." "The creature they've made is absurd, but in its own way, it belongs here.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“There were no good answers anymore, only choices about how to carry what felt unbearable.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Metamorphosis means transformation instead of death. The characters change form, but they endure.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Whatever your sentence, you must fight for yourself. Promise me this. History isn't yet written, Alouette. The dye is not set.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“And slowly, I began to trust their God, whether I believed in him yet or not. I needed something larger than myself to lean against, when my own courage failed. ... There is grace in knowing when to accept help, even from unexpected quarters.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“...larks, there to remind us that there's sky above, however far away, even when the darkness feels thick enough to swallow us whole. That there's a way out, even when we can't see it.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Taking a piece of chalk from her satchel”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Justice and mercy”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“How can this be the world? Where Jews aren’t human and have no rights. Where the Germans and even these marionette gendarmes have given away their humanity”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Pitchipoi.”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Beside her walk two angelic-looking girls”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“History has little imagination,” Felix”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“They’re already hunting people in occupied territories. Jews”
― Paula McLain, Skylark

“Knowledge is the one thing they can’t take from you,”
― Paula McLain, Skylark