Helen Klein Ross > Quotes

“When you forgive, the prisoner you set free is yourself.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“So much of who you are has to do with your mother.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“Sometimes you have to choose from wrong choices. Sometimes, the right choice is which choice feels the least wrong.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“I learned to take refuge in wherever the light is, because anything else is darkness that can pull you down deep.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“And so, they forgave American priests for what priests in their country had failed to do. They imagined that if Hitler invaded America, American priests would stand up to him.”
― Helen Klein Ross, The German Sisters: A Novel

“Tragedy happens to lots of people. You can decide to let it destroy you, or you can decide to move on.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“Watching her sister become fervent about fascism was like watching someone you loved go mad.”
― Helen Klein Ross, The German Sisters: A Novel

“Vati respected the free will of others, even his children with whom he didn’t agree.”
― Helen Klein Ross, The German Sisters: A Novel

“...I've come to learn that pain is inevitable in this world, but suffering is optional.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“into my back pocket.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“Irony can be tiresome when what you really need is a hug.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“I’ve come to learn that pain is inevitable in this world, but suffering is optional.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine

“Everyone who lived through those times has some memory of things starting to change, stirrings of a terrible future barely perceptible, like the first molecules agitating in a pot on a flame.”
― Helen Klein Ross, The German Sisters: A Novel

“I can’t tell my story straight. I have to tell it in circles, like rings of a tree that signify the passage of time.”
― Helen Klein Ross, What Was Mine