The Fervor Quotes

“It made no sense—or maybe it was just because she didn’t want it to be true. Didn’t want to acknowledge that such raw hatred could exist in the world.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“Only white people trusted the government. Thought you could take your problems to them and that you could expect to be helped.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“America was made up of so many different types of people, you'd think they'd have gotten used to each other. How exhausting it must be here to hate everyone who was different.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“There’s no reason to be worried. It seems scary now but the next day is coming, just like the day before and the day before that. You never have to be worried or afraid because the world was made to change, Aiko. Nothing bad lasts forever.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“No computer books for me. I love real books I can hold and open with excitement, anticipation and, yes, reverence. There is nothing like the smell of a book, bookshops and libraries”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“The world would be forever ignorant of Japanese achievements because they were written in a language few outsiders understood, he’d insisted. He wrote about all his studies and experiments in Esperanto so—in case anything happened to him—his ideas would still be available to the global scientific community.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“. I wanted to think that my anger, this terrible anger like nothing I’ve ever felt before, was because I’d caught this disease. If I hadn’t, then it means this hatred, this weakness . . . it’s all me. It came from inside me.” And it’s up to you to take responsibility for it.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“If you had asked her during her first years in America if she ever thought they’d imprison their own citizens, seize their property, and make the innocent disappear, she’d have thought you were crazy. That kind of thing happened in vicious dictatorships. Even a benign monarch like the emperor could go astray. But the whole world looked to America for fairness.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“She had her father’s and mother’s voices in her head, telling her to be smart. Practical. Obedient. Following your heart was foolish. Following your head was wise. And honor. Always do the honorable thing.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“If Meiko had known how prejudiced Americans could be—Nisei as well as whites—she might’ve thought twice before agreeing to marry Jamie Briggs.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“Looking to the fantastical for answers because nothing made sense anymore, not when your government could lock you up without reason and your neighbors, people you thought were your friends, stood by and did nothing to stop them.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“The fervor—that’s what she had begun to think of the disease as—had for its symptom the most powerful of contagious elements: fear. It seemed to spread from host to host faster than a spider could and caused violence and cruelty far deadlier than any weapon.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“Were their lives so empty that they would believe anything? Tell them any stupid lie and they would swallow it like it was medicine and ask for more.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“There were no significant differences between the physiologies of the races, nothing beside the cosmetic. Only a hard-core racist would believe otherwise.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“You did it because you’re jealous of me. Me and Archie. Because we’re white and good and God-fearing, and Jesus loves us, and it’s something you’ll never, ever have.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“The Nazis were the bad guys. Whereas every American believed he was a good guy.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“A sharp account of too-recent history, it’s a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human when being human matters most.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor

“We arrived only yesterday and already the cold sea air has seeped into my bones and softened the pages on which I now write.”
― Alma Katsu, The Fervor