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“Yes I don’t like to live here,’ she said, more to herself than me. Then she turned toward me: ‘But if I have learned anything from my life, it’s that since I don’t belong anywhere, only the movement matters.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“The two women have to tear her from the dead body of her child whom she is clutching to her breast. S. tries to pry away her hands, but the woman is too strong. They wrestle silently for a moment. S. gives up. Why wrest the child away from her? The woman needs time to realise that they are surrounded by death, that this is what the camp fence defines, a demarcated territory where death reigns supreme.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, S.

“Smell the soup, cool the soup,” Timby said. “Huh?” “It’s what they teach us in school when we’re upset. Smell the soup.” He took a deep breath in. “Cool the soup.” He blew out.”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz