The Houseguest Quotes

“The Auers had a pantry. She hardly knew the word when she first heard it. It was an entire room devoted to food, each shelf lined with jars of jam and boxes of shredded wheat and bags of beans and tins of fish. So much food. Not a closet. Not a cabinet. A pantry. An altar to plenty.”
― Kim Brooks, The Houseguest

“Watching was one of the purest expressions of human existence. It affirmed the presence of these people and the reality of the world they inhabited.”
― Kim Brooks, The Houseguest

“One had come to accept that history and crisis were essentially synonymous for Jews - Genesis to Gdansk - but what was happening now, what they were experiencing since the National Socialists had taken Germany and Europe after it, was wholly different and horrifying and inexplicable and completely undeniable.”
― Kim Brooks, The Houseguest