Oskar and the Eight Blessings Quotes

“Oskar's particular blessings are blessings that only a major cosmopolitan city can bestow on a refugee. They represent all our potential to survive and even thrive in the face of great loss.”
― Richard Simon, Oskar and the Eight Blessings

“Oskar is the fruit of those fantasies -- the idea that what needed to be saved was not just lives but hope.”
― Richard Simon, Oskar and the Eight Blessings