Andrew Fukuda > Quotes

“Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.”
― Andrew Fukuda, The Hunt

“I remember the Hunt from ten years ago. How for months afterward I didn’t dare fall asleep because of the nightmares that would invade my mind: hideous images of an imagines Hunt, wet and violent and full of blood. Horrific cries of fear and panic, the sound of flesh ripped and bones crushed puncturing the night stillness.”
― Andrew Fukuda, The Hunt

“Death. So routine and anticlimactic in the end, all the more horrific because of it.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“Charlie will never sit here again. She will never write again. She will never have another thought again. He thinks of her lips, how they will never curl into a smile, or spread with laughter. Her eyes, how they will never sparkle with life. Her feet, how they will never walk the pathways of the Sorbonne campus. HE thinks of that cafe in Paris where they will never drink coffee together, that empty table set for two, those two empty chairs, the conversations they will never share, the moments together they will never remember for the rest of their lives.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“But this is how evil grows, no? When good people are too tired.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“I have heard about a resistance group made up of Jewish teenagers: Eclaireurs Israelites de France. I will do everything I can to find and join them. Because when I am old and look back on this time, I want no regrets. I want to know that in this brief moment of darkness and fear, I was not just a spoilt rich Parisian girl who did nothing. I want to look back and know that I lived courageously, I stood up to evil, and made a difference. That I was a leaping frog.
Wonder Woman is gazing down at me now with a look of approval: "Well done, young lady," she seems to be saying. "You will go far in this world.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“Ashley June: such a romantic at heart. Even in the moments after imminent death, apparently.”
― Andrew Fukuda, The Hunt

“It wasn't enough. Nothing is enough now.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“My Parisians are not evil. Or even cowards. They are only people--good people--who are now too busy and tired and distracted, trying to survive in these difficult times. But this is how evil grows, no? When good people are too tired.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“Young lovers are not anymore: not young, not lovers.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“At the top of the gangplank, he is handed a form letter from President Roosevelt. You bear with you, it says, the hope, the confidence, the gratitude, and the prayers of your family, your fellow-citizens, and your President. The same president who sent them to interment camps. Who keeps their parents and brothers and sisters behind barbed-wire fences. Few bother to read the letter. Some slip it into their jacket, the blank side to alter be used to tally card score or gambling debts, or, when toilet paper runs out, other uses. Most toss the paper into the foaming waters below.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“Death, so routine and anticlimactic in the end, all the more horrific because of it.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II

“recall the story if I remind you of some of the more salient details.”
― Andrew Fukuda, Crossing

“I will show you Paris. I will take you everywhere. Because even now, even after all Paris has done to me, all the ways she has failed me, hurt me, even arrested me and let me be taken away, all the ways she has betrayed me--I still love her. Maybe Alex, maybe loving a city, a country, is like loving a person: you love her despite her faults, you forgive her constantly, you always believe in her, fight for her, you never give up on her.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“I will show you Paris. I will take you everywhere. Because even now, even after all Paris has done to me, all the ways she has failed me, hurt me, even arrested me and let me be taken away, all the ways she has betrayed me -- I still love her. Maybe, Alex, maybe loving a city, a country, is like loving a person: you love her despite her faults, you forgive her constantly, you always believe in her, fight for her, you never give up on her.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us

“• “It’s not a floating lantern, or course not. It’s a mass of some kind of fluorescent plant—or perhaps a colony of jellyfish—passing by. He stares, disappointed yet mesmerized by the sight. This radiant heart light. If he had not come to the deck, it would have passed unobserved. He wonders if the world is like this; so many miracles of beauty everywhere, if only you knew where to look, that go otherwise unobserved.”
“Death, so routine and anticlimactic in the end, all the more horrific because of it.”
― Andrew Fukuda

“Frank pauses. "I want to thank you. For letting my friends cut school to see me--to see all of us-- off. It means a lot."
Principal Roy Dennis grips Frank's shoulder. "It's the last I could do. Because this is a terrible injustice, and we'll never live it down as a community, as a nation. It'll be a blight on us. I'm so very sorry.”
― Andrew Fukuda, This Light Between Us