We Must Not Think of Ourselves Quotes

“There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which nears this feeling but tempers it with nostalgia, a wish for something that was and can never be again. A grieving person lives in a permanent state of saudade, but saudade does not incorporate joy. And grief might be simpler if joy never tried to intrude.”
― lauren grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

“Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about their lives. I need the best minds here to help.”
― Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

“We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home.”
― Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

“Ma’am, people are merely another species of animal. We just don’t like to be reminded of it.”
― Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves