The Commandant's Daughter Quotes

“Winter series The Commandant’s Daughter The Pilot’s Girl The Girl in the Photo The Secretary The Lost Mother What Only We Know The Fortunate”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“She was too full of tea and sympathy”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“Over the course of a long and sleepless night with the imprint of his lips still traced on her own, Hanni had come to an inescapable conclusion: there was more pain to be had in hiding from her past than in trying to secure a better future”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“There are people who do dreadful things and there are those who stand by and let them and there's no difference between the two as far as I'm concerned. Those who know the truth have a responsibility to do the right thing: to denounce the criminal, not to bury their secrets. If they don't do that - if they don't allow punishment to be a possibility - then it's simple: they share in the guilt”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“Freddy could never know who Hanni Winter really was. That some agonies ran too deep and that, if she told him even a part of it, he would loathe her too - he would look at her and see a black uniform and a backdrop of hatred exactly as Natan had. That there could be nothing therefore between her and Freddy Schlussel but secrets. It was a fact, but it was hard to look into the dark eyes she had captured so beautifully in the photograph and accept it”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“Hanni stood up and wiped her eyes. She had to stop hiding from what had to be done for the sake of an easy life. She hadn't earned that yet”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“She knew what home meant to her father and his kind: they used it and homeland like magic talismans, not to describe actual places, but as a shorthand for a concept of blood purity that was sick to its soul”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“She didn't fully know yet how photographs were taken, or how they could be used. She was, however, beginning to learn that they had a value which went beyond the annual family portraits her mother delighted in and she was determined to understand more”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter

“Grown-ups are always saying one thing and doing another - it's not very helpful”
― Catherine Hokin, The Commandant's Daughter