The Girl Who Survived Quotes

“I looked at him. He sat in the darkness, with his brows knitted tightly together, as though trying to grasp something, to understand the inconceivable, to pinpoint the moment when everything suddenly got out of control and the point of no return was officially passed by both sides – the future murderers and their victims. The new Reich sorted us into two kinds and now he suddenly found himself among those who held an ax above our miserable heads.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“Who would have thought that words could hold so much power, to stir so much hatred that it would eventually lead to genocide? I, for one, had always believed that we, the human race, were better than that.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“No human being is better than any other.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Survived

“If more of us refused to be intimidated by them, this all wouldn’t have happened.”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Survived

“It had never occurred, to me, that the walls of hell were made out of ice.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“You asked me if I was religious before. I am. My religion is a world, in which people coexist in peace and where musicians are very useful people and where German pilots can like Jewish girls from the ghetto. Sounds absurd, I know. But so do all other religions and therefore, I’ll stick to mine if you don’t mind.” I didn’t.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“We’re not used to stealing things, I suppose.” Almost apologetically, I grinned back at her. “You’d never survive in the Soviet Union then. Everyone steals everything here. That’s just how things work. Factories have quotas for stealing.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“I didn’t want romance. I only wanted a normal life.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“They. His own superiors became “they” to him. The alien side, the hostile side. Somehow, in the middle of this war, he switched fronts without realizing it fully.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land