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“You are summoned for no reason other than that you are a Jew, as if "Jew" were a mass term comparable, say, to "water" or "salt." Here is a bit of water, we say, and any sample of it will do. All water manifests itself the same interchangeable water properties. That a Nazi should think this way about Jews is not in the least surprising. Mass terms, mass murders, mass graves: they are all of a piece.”
― Rebecca Goldstein, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“And not to be outdone, Nick exclaimed, "Don't listen to them! I know for a fact dads are liars because I have incontrovertible proof that Seth doesn't orgasm fire!"

Silence, only interrupted by Seth banging his head against the nearest wall over and over, each hit punctuated by the word why.”
― T.J. Klune, Heat Wave

“But, unfortunately, the injured in this case (six million martyred dead) are incapable of exercising such prerogative or indeed if expressing any opinion at all.

And if the dead can’t forgive, neither can the living.”
― Mark Goulden, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“At the crux of it, everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Cale Dietrich, If This Gets Out