Emilia Quotes

“life wasn’t always what one thought it should be.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“Harboring hatred towards your offenders is the same thing as twisting the knife in your own stomach and hoping for them to die from the wound. It damages you more and more, not them. It drains you, and leaves you empty and hollow, like a used eggshell. Do you want to remain an empty eggshell for the rest of your life? You’re far too young to hold onto your anger, and your life will be miserable if you don’t let go of it.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“Not everything can be forgotten, but everything can be forgiven, schatzi. And the more that evil was done to you, the more you need to forgive the ones who did it.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“Schatzi, if they couldn’t work me to death – no one will,” Karina replied resolutely,”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“It’s idleness that kills you, not work. Work kept me alive all these years, and I don’t intend on lounging around when so many people could use my help. If it’s my age that you worry about, then don’t – I have all my wits.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“words that they had waited to say for so long, and were almost too afraid to believe: “You’re free. You’re all free now.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“It’s when your own kin starts hating you as well, that’s when it becomes frightening.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“I’m a human being, just like you are, and my heart is on the same side as yours, and my blood is also red, and it hurts me to hear that we are vermin, just as much as it would hurt you if someone told you the same thing.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“. I hate every single one of you. Jewish. I never thought of myself as Jewish before all of you suddenly started pointing it out. I was a German, just like you. What made me so distinctive from you all of a sudden? The red J in my papers? The armband? Because if I had taken it off, I could have easily passed for one of your highly praised BDM girls. You’d never know the difference once you saw me next to them. You never knew the difference before, and now all of a sudden we’re Jewish”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“She would guard her memories and keep all the darkness inside,”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“It was as if she had cried all the tears that were possible for her to cry throughout her whole life and there was nothing left anymore. She”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia

“No, dead people weren’t frightening to her anymore, it was living people who she had to be afraid of, that she knew very well by now; the same people who she grew up with in one country and who suddenly declared war on her whole race: her fellow Germans.”
― Ellie Midwood, Emilia