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

“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