Stephanie Landsem > Quotes

“Jesus lifted his chin, and he seemed to grow taller. Mara caught her breath. He looked—just for a moment—like a king. He said into the silence, “I am.”
― Stephanie Landsem, The Well

“I can only tell you what I believe, and in the words of a rabbi, translated and interpreted over centuries: If not me, who? If not now, when?”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“To do nothing, to remain silent, was to let evil win. That”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“Wilhelm Otto held out his hand as the orchestra started a Strauss waltz. Did the man never speak when a look would do? I considered his outstretched hand with trepidation, remembering weeping in his auto, that same hand clutched in mine. In that moment, I had felt safe with him. Now I did not know what to feel. Was the person before me a different man? Or the same?”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“If not us, who? If not now, when? It must be us, and it must be now. I would fight this war. I would not be silent!”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“Somebody needed to tell those kids the real enemies weren’t the Jews or the Catholics or Negroes, like the Klan and the National Socialists wanted them to believe. The real enemies were poverty and injustice and ignorance—and hate. It wasn’t too late to set them straight. Give them a second chance. Didn’t everybody deserve that? He hoped so, for their sake and his own.”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.”
― Stephanie Landsem, The Thief

“fear can be faced. And if it is confronted, people can change.”
― Stephanie Landsem, Code Name Edelweiss

“Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?”
― Stephanie Landsem, The Thief

“He doesn't do what anyone expects. But this I know: He will change our world.”
― Stephanie Landsem, The Thief