Ray Kingfisher > Quotes

“you could overcome the worst of any ordeal given enough time, love from those around you, and inner strength.”
― Ray Kingfisher, The Sugar Men

“seconds that these people could have been enemy agents trying to gain my confidence and find out what I knew about the Allied forces, but that only went to demonstrate my state of mind at the time. And this woman had obviously been working on the land. The sweat-packed hair on her temples and the dirt on her hands and grey flannel work suit spoke”
― Ray Kingfisher, Rosa's Gold

“got sick of all the bitterness and hate – from the Nazis to the Jews, from the rest of the world to the Germans. I just wanted to step off of that particular carousel.”
― Ray Kingfisher, The Sugar Men

“what sort of a world would it be if we didn’t forgive a moment’s wrongdoing regretted.”
― Ray Kingfisher, Rosa's Gold

“It was probably for the best that she hadn’t told them about her nightmares: of being locked in a burning synagogue on Kristallnacht, of being taken to the edge of the world on a cold and crowded cattle truck, of being locked inside a room with no food, water, or heat and left to die a slow, lingering death. No, if she’d told them about those nightmares, they really would have thought she was mad.”
― Ray Kingfisher, Three Tales from Vienna: A Novel

“up”
― Ray Kingfisher, Rosa's Gold

“we’re all products of our parents more so than we realize, don’t”
― Ray Kingfisher, Slow Burning Lies

“Shedding tears wasn’t going to help nobody.”
― Ray Kingfisher, The Sugar Men