From These Broken Streets Quotes

“in the midst of suffering, it was important to remember one thing: everyone suffered. Some more, some less; some now, some later; some in one way, some in another. But no one was exempt. It was, he said, a lesson, not a punishment. She closed her eyes and bowed her head. Some women were given children; others were not. Some women had parents”
― Roland Merullo, From These Broken Streets

“The danger here is that, in trying to prove to yourself something you do not need to prove, you will behave in a way that is untrue to you, and place your soul in danger.”
― Roland Merullo, From These Broken Streets

“Maybe, she thought, they have so much disdain for the Italians—our food, our music, our God-given happiness, our warmth—that they want, not to be loved but only to prove their own superiority. There must be decent ones among them, men like the soldier who’d warned her about the rapist. Surely there were thousands of young men who’d never wanted to be in Hitler’s army. But it was the vulgar and violent ones who left an impression.”
― Roland Merullo, From These Broken Streets