Anne Blankman > Quotes

“If you think love means secrecy, then you don’t understand what love is at all.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“Loving someone is one thing, and being loved is another, but being loved by the one you love - that's paradise. And I don't think I shall ever have it. Some men aren't capable of loving you back.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“You and I are impossible." she said.

"No." Gently, he brushed the hair back from her face. "We are what's real and true.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“Do you always worry about everyone else before yourself?"
"I don't know. I suppose."
"It's a miserable habit...”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“She stood on the edge of night, that sliver of gray between darkness and dawn, that razor-thin line separating the first part of her life and whatever lay ahead.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“He reached out with his good hand, cupping her chin.
"Gretchen, don't you realise by now I would give up everything to be with you?”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.”
― Anne Blankman, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

“The man she had loved as a father was a fraud. He kissed the back of her hands and advocated war; he had played with her on the carpet with toy soldiers, and all along he had been planning the extinction of an entire people.

There would be no resettlement in the east. No carefully orchestrated exodus of Jews from Germany, no trains wending through the mountains, carrying Jews to another home in another country. There would be no peaceful expulsion. It was obvious now; Hitler had said it himself tonight. The internal purification of the Jewish spirit is not possible.

She understood. In Hitler's Germany, the Jews would have no place at all.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“Then he cradled her face, touching her so tenderly she could scarcely breathe, and brought his face to hers until their lips met in a kiss that burned her mouth.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen. Every time, I'll choose you.”
― Anne Blankman, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

“Take pride in your despicable enemies because it means you've stood up for your beliefs.”
― Anne Blankman, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

“No, not anonymous. Maybe she didn't matter enough to the Brauns, certainly not enough to her mother and Uncle Dolf, and definitely not at all to Reinhard. But she mattered to herself. And that was all that needed to be true. She would figure something out”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“His proximity should disgust her, but it only confused her.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“But I promise you I'll love you until the day I die.
Then he kissed her. His lips on hers were as light as a breath. And she couldn't stop the horrible thought that his touch felt like a farewell.”
― Anne Blankman, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

“I know how they'll feel. As though the world should stop rotating or the sun shining or the rain from coming down. When those things do happen, they won't be able to believe it. Because they'll think that the world should be different, now that their loved one has been killed. But the world won't be different. They will.”
― Anne Blankman, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

“La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“I don’t want to live without you,” he said. “Life is so short and so precious, and I don’t want to waste another second of it wondering how you feel about me or what’s going to become of us. I love you. If anything happened to you, the world would stop for me. I would want it to stop because I can’t go on without”
― Anne Blankman

“She thought having a best friend was like being given a new set of lungs when you had been gasping for air.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“shoulders,”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“Le persone che amiamo non sono mai perse.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“The Jews were an enemy of convenience.”
― Anne Blankman, Prisoner of Night and Fog

“Pensava che avere un migliore amico fosse come ricevere un nuovo paio di polmoni quando ti mancava l'aria.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“C'è sempre una soluzione, diceva papà, devi solo sbagliare e continuare a provare per trovarla.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori,”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

“Later, after they had washed up from supper and Babulya sat on the balcony, playing her flute, Oksana showed Valentina her paints, and Valentina said grudgingly that she supposed even black-market men weren’t so bad—sometimes.”
― Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls