F. Fernandez

“How could you be only hours from me and yet stay away, offering excuse after excuse? How could the man I loved - the man to whom I’d given myself - behave in this way, especially given the loss and suffering I’d just endured? How could you do this to me? The question I didn’t write, but certainly thought, was, How could I let him?”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman

“I realized that to achieve one dream, you had to forsake your core identity. Changing your name is easy. Changing your soul is impossible.”
― Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian