Daniela

“Why was our Mieczyslaw so afraid of them? Did he fear that they would peel away his carefully constructed image of a person who is on good terms with himself, who feels alright about himself and is sure of his own opinions? That they would take him back to Lwow, to face all those persecutors - at school, in the street, in doctors' consulting rooms, in his own home?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

“The plan (Dalet) included the following clear reference to the methods to be employed in the process of cleansing the (Palestinian) population:

'Destruction of villages (setting fire to, blowing up, and planting mines in the debris), especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously... Mounting search and control operations according to the following guidelines: encirclement of the village and conducting a search inside it. In the event of resistance, the armed force must be destroyed and the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated