Marcel's Letters Quotes

“floor, surrounded by piles of feather-like receipts and a flock of black three-ring binders, wings spread wide, was a perfectly normal thing to see.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“This was not a family tree. This was an entire forest.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“so the inside pockets don’t exist and the buttons have gone on leave.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“As I drove past vast seas of soybeans and corn growing under the hot August sun,”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“The wedding portrait and the photo from 1991 were like bookends of a life.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“It only took thirty minutes to get there in light midday traffic. Plus I sped.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“You need to start reading chick lit like a normal girl.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“the weekend free from visions of labor camps was what I needed.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“for the day, I was happy to let World War II retreat into history. Every new thing I learned pulled me deeper into an abyss of hate and horror. Spending”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“With the font, I made every decision: not a lawyer, not an engineer. My opinion was the only one that mattered.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“far-off sirens echoing through concrete canyons,”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“those trips were driven by a yearning to be surrounded by simplicity and nostalgia.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

“The 130,000 women who cycled through Ravensbrück represented every country Germany occupied.”
― Carolyn Porter, Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate