Esther Hautzig > Quotes

“Remember that there is always some good in people who love flowers.”
― Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

“What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.”
― Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

“I told her what I knew, that soldiers were in Grandfather Solomon's house, that Tata went there in his pajamas. "In his pajamas?" she asked, as if this was the most terrifying fact of all.”
― Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia