Dutch Girl Quotes

“There's a curious thing about pain, said Audrey. 'In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them- that they were alive. My experiences and the people I lost in the war remain so vivid for me because of the pain.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It made her who she was.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“There's a curious thing about pain, said Audrey [Hepburn]. In the beginning it's an enemy. It's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years goes by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them that they were alive. My experiences and the people I lost in the war remain so vivid for me, because of the pain.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“There's a curious thing about pain," said Audrey. "In the beginning, it's an enemy, it's something that you don't want to face or think about or deal with. Yet with time it becomes almost a friend. If you've lost someone you love very much, in the beginning you can't bear it, but as the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly or them- that they were alive. My experiences and the people I lost in the war remains so vivid for me because of the pain.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“the years go by, the pain of losing them is what reminds you so vividly of them—that they were alive. My experiences and the people I lost in the war remain so vivid for me because of the pain.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“us. So we sat around and made up stories, invented things. We entertained each other, and it helped carry our minds away from the horrible life we were leading.” In the midst of battle, it was a miracle the villa hadn’t been reduced to rubble or set ablaze, although, as she recounted, “Parts of our house kept being shot away.” She described Velp as “a shooting gallery between the two armies. Day and night the din continued until we grew so accustomed”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“Visser ’t Hooft also had unorthodox requests of his young volunteer aide, like calling upon Audrey to deliver the local Resistance newspaper, Oranjekrant. With paper pulp in extremely short supply, the Oranjekrant packed its volume of critical information into a surface area about the size of half a paper napkin. Audrey described having “to step in and deliver our tiny underground newspaper. I stuffed them in my woolen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“Each card was officially numbered, signed, and countersigned. It was logical that the Germans wanted to know”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“Germans had anticipated the establishment of such a communication tool by the Allies and issued the “Measure for the Protection of the Dutch Population Against Untrue Information.” With this act, the occupied people would be kept away from “false news” and given information they could trust from officially sanctioned pro-Nazi stations broadcasting from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“than it had been at de Zijp—Ella and Audrey”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II