We Were the Lucky Ones Quotes

“The exercise of deciding where to go next is difficult. Because next most likely means a new forever.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“The exercise of deciding where to go next is difficult. Because next most likely means a new forever. It means thinking about where to settle. Where to start over. During the war, their options were fewer, the stakes higher, their mission singular. It was simple, in a way. Keep your chin down, your guard up. Stay one step ahead. Stay alive for one more day. Don't let the enemy win. To think about a long-term plan feels complicated, and burdensome, like flexing an atrophied muscle.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“What matters, she tells herself, is that even on the hardest days, when the grief is so heavy she can barely breathe, she must carry on. She must get up, get dressed, and go to work. She will take each day as it comes. She will keep moving.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Relationships begin with honesty, Nechuma once told him. This is the foundation, for to be in love means to be able to share everything—your dreams, your faults, your deepest fears. Without these truths, a relationship will collapse”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Months later, in a different world, Nechuma will look back on this evening, the last Passover when they were nearly all together, and wish with every cell in her body that she could relive it. She will remember the familiar smell of the gefilte, the chink of silver on porcelain, the taste of parsley, briny and bitter on her tongue. She will long for the touch of Felicia's baby-soft skin, the weight of Jakob's hand on hers beneath the table, the wine-induced warmth in the pit of her belly that begged her to believe that everything might actually turn out all right in the end. She will remember how happy Halina had looked at the piano after their meal, how they had danced together, how they all spoke of missing Addy, assuring each other that he'd be home soon. She will replay it all, over and over again, every beautiful moment of it, and savor it, like the last perfect klapsa pears of the season.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“In the midst of this happy occasion,” Yoffe says, righting himself, “we should not forget how fragile life truly is. The breaking of glass—a symbol of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, of man’s short life on earth.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“And if all goes well, in due time they'll be allowed to emigrate to the United States. To America. The word sings when the speak it - of freedom, of opportunity, of the chance to start anew. America. Sometimes it sounds too perfect, like the last note of a nocturne that hovers, suspended in time, before inevitably growing faint and disappearing.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“There is nothing worse, not even the daily hell of the ghetto, than for a mother to live with such fear and uncertainty about the fates of her children.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“for to be in love means to be able to share everything—your dreams, your faults, your deepest fears. Without these truths, a relationship will collapse.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Part of her wishes she could travel forward in time, and skip to the end of the war. But there is also part of her that prays for time to stop.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“her world was torn to shreds. She’d watched from then on as every basic truth of the life she once knew—her home, her family, her safety—was thrown to the wind. Now, those fragments of her past have begun to drift back down to earth, and for the first time in over half a decade she has allowed herself to believe that, with time and patience, she might just be able to stitch together a semblance of what was. It will never be the same—she’s wise enough to understand that. But they are here, and for the most part, together, which has begun to feel like something of a miracle.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“He folds his handkerchief back into his pocket. Home. Family. Nothing is more important. He knows that now.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“as shared circumstances. What similarities, if any, did you notice? What are some messages in the book that you feel would be valuable to pass along to future generations? There are several examples in the book of strangers who put their lives at risk to help the Kurcs, such as the Górskis, who take Sol and Nechuma into hiding; the Mother Superior, who allows Felicia into her convent; and Herr Den, who vouches for Halina’s Aryan identity. What would you have done had you been in these characters’ shoes? What motivates people to put themselves on the line—despite the deadly risks of getting caught—to help people in need?”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Wojtek, Polish for ‘smiling warrior,”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“L'chaim!”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

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― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Most of the Alsina’s European refugees refused, in fact, to converse with the West Africans, a behavior Addy found absurd. Racism, after all—the very root of Nazi ideology—”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“What does it mean, she wonders, to live a day of her life without worry? Without a plan? Every minute of every day has been orchestrated, to the best of her ability, since the start of the war. Is she even capable, Mila wonders, of letting things unfold on their own?”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Jews allowed into the country, calling them “undesirable and non-assimilable.” Infuriated by the number of visas Souza Dantas has granted without permission in France, Vargas begins turning away refugees seeking freedom in Brazil, and issues Law 3175, forcing Ambassador Souza Dantas to”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland. Two days later, in response, Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany; Canada quickly follows. World War II in Europe begins.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“The signs were there, for sure. But Addy had downplayed them, brushed them off. He’d told himself that there was no harm in a little graffiti;”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Why is it, Mila wonders, that even when her daughter is sleeping, she worries that something dreadful has happened to her?”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Don’t be so hard on yourself, Mila. It’s not what you thought it would be, but that’s to be expected. With children it’s never what you think it’s going to be.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“It's her father's technique, one he's used since she was a child. "On three," he'd say, and whatever the daunting challenge—pulling a tooth, yankning a splinter from under a fingernail, pouring peroxide over a bloodied knee—the counting somehow made it easier.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“rests”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Relationships begin with honesty, Nechuma once told him. This is the foundation, for to be in love means to be able to share everything—your dreams, your faults, your deepest fears. Without these truths, a relationship will collapse.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Genek sings along quietly. Please, God, protect Poland. Protect us. Protect our families. Please.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“mother,”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“Part of her wishes she could travel forward in time, and skip to the end of the war. But there is also part of her that prays for time to stop. For there is no telling what the future might bring.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland. Two days later, in response, Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany. World War II in Europe begins.”
― Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones