Maria Àngels Anglada > Quotes

“It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“Daniel wanted to recite the prayer for the dead, but he couldn't: the world had turned to ice when he witnessed the children selected to die.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“Nothing existed other than the camp, other than this island, this monstrous archipelago of subcamps.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“They wept as they embraced each other; tears flowed easily when you were exhausted.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“Spring, he told himself, would bloom brighter than ever. It would bloom over the bodies of the thousands of dead. It wasn't a comforting thought, but it was true.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“The days were like years, the months like days, all of it muddled indistinguishably together.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“But logic did not reign at the Dreiflüsselager, much less compassion.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz