Alice

“I entered that halfway station between sleep and consciousness, where your mind loses perspective, the sharp lines of reality become blurred and your brain is peppered with fluctuating nothingness and silent moving images that are at odds with the sounds around you.”
― Tova Friedman, The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope; Library Edition

“Having children is getting to live two lives.”
― Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

“The Nazis had no use for old people. Anybody over the age of 50 was regarded as ancient by the Germans. I never saw a person with white hair until I came to America.”
― Tova Friedman, The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope; Library Edition

“There are stacks of wooden stakes, corkscrew pickets, and a great tangle of telegraph wire. It looks like a satanic scrapyard.”
― Caroline Scott, The Poppy Wife