The Crate Quotes

“all the ways my parents had spit in death’s face had allowed me to live the life I lived right now.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“But she wanted me to live the best life, wherever it took me. To find happiness wherever I could. That’s all a mother can ask.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“Cooper scoffed in his grand, theatrical way. “Dr. Vadas, you were in shock?” he said sarcastically. “Do you mean to say you were in shock even though as a doctor you deal with blood and gore?” Peter said, “To be honest, Mr. Cooper, in my allergy practice I deal more with runny noses than blood and gore.” When Cooper pressed, Peter silenced him by saying quietly, “Mr. Cooper. I’m the doctor, you’re the lawyer. Don’t try to tell me what shock is. It’s a medical term.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“when Jake had been a toddler we’d caught him in the plumbing aisle, pants around his ankles, climbing onto one of the toilets on display.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“Apparently Solarcaine, a topical anesthetic, is meant to be used only in small quantities. Peter’s inflamed skin had absorbed copious amounts of the drug and it had knocked him out.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“the factory warden had little choice but to send the bodies to the local cemetery to be disposed of during that period. Six Haftlings died within that time frame. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of victims of Nazi atrocities across Europe had been dumped into mass graves, but, according to what we read next, this local cemetery superintendent took it upon himself to do something. Something extraordinary. This cemetery superintendent – this good, decent man – took each of those six deceased Bochum factory workers and laid him in an individual, marked grave in the Wiemelhausen Jewish Cemetery.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“the large group of Haftlings ended up in a factory in Bochum, Germany,”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“Ironically, thousands of prisoners died terrible deaths after liberation because they could not digest food.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“I listened to a soft voice recite the names of the one and a half million Jewish children who had perished, the voice that took weeks to finish a single recitation.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“Toronto had become a cultural mosaic, a tapestry of hundreds of immigrant cultures that retained their language and traditions in distinct neighborhoods – as opposed to a melting pot, in which everyone became the same.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice

“We felt in control, even if the instruments of our protection only came in bottles: sunscreen, vitamins, insect repellant, and pepper spray.”
― Deborah Vadas Levison, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice