Night Angels Quotes

“The rich and the powerful were arrested, the prominent and the talented were harassed, and the skilled and the hardworking were attacked.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“lampposts and islands of Baroque”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“In order for the mirror of the present to shine, the dust of old memories must be wiped off.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“Stay strong, start anew. You can still create your legacy beyond progeny,”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“perhaps this was all that we had come to be, creatures of aloofness, apart from others, adrift from the world.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“Children, when they were nurtured with the love of the world, would nurture the world in return.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“Mr. Beran was an immense, thickset man with a long beard who always reminded Fengshan of one of the revolutionary bandits from the classic Chinese novel The Tale of Life at the Water’s Edge.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“As a man raised with Confucius’s beliefs, Fengshan held dear the five virtues, Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, and Xin—benevolence, righteousness, decorum, wisdom, and trustworthiness”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“How the world turned. Once a wealthy man, now a pariah.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“Mr. Rosenburg lay on a narrow bed, sedated, as the minutes of his life slipped by.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“I’d love to offer you a drink under normal circumstances, but I must offer my most sincere apologies. My presence is needed at another location, and I regret I don’t have much time.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“It was easier to fill up the Danube Valley than to convince Mutter that the theory of luck in relation to the order of footsteps was flawed. But Mutter couldn’t be persuaded”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“An enviable young woman, not yet dented by the stress of marriage, parenting, or other worldly shackles and shames.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“I was that forgettable aide in his life. The husband must sing the melody and the wife must play the accompaniment, he had said, but why must it be so? Shouldn’t the wife carry the melody once in a while, now and then?”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“When I walked out of the building, it seemed a part of me had been peeled off. I had been born here, grown up here, and with one signature, I was a woman without a country.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“I had often wondered why he took his life. I had thought because the torture was unbearable, because he wanted to protect his employer, but now I knew he took his life because he saw the city that had been our home had become a city of crimes and was no longer worth living for. This was what the Nazis were doing to us—to make us drown in our despair, to lose the will to live, and to perish.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels

“Mrs. Schnitzler, unlike my alcoholic mother, was a superstitious woman—I was told flowers must be given in odd numbers, for an even number of flowers indicated funerals. When Lola sneezed, Mrs. Schnitzler tugged Lola’s ear lest an evil spirit hear and latch on to her. To keep the evil spirits away, I was also told to step out of a house with the right foot first. There was a painful history behind this, she said, that went back to Spain’s Edict of Expulsion in 1492; during that time, many Jews left their homes with their left foot out first, and they were all either persecuted or forced to leave the country. Mrs. Schnitzler believed that this was a critical survival lesson for Jews and that their life depended on the order of the foot stepping out of the home.”
― Weina Dai Randel, Night Angels