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They got the land, fine, but it’s not enough. They want submission. They want to feel good about it when they rip things out of our hands. But they won’t get me again. And they won’t get my children, either. I have to go after them. I have
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“Ellen had said that her mother was frightened of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after,”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“...and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of-something he can work and fight for."
Surely that gift-the gift of a world of human decency-is the one that all countries hunger for still. I hope that this story of Denmark, and its people, will remind us all that such a world is possible.”
― Number the Stars
Surely that gift-the gift of a world of human decency-is the one that all countries hunger for still. I hope that this story of Denmark, and its people, will remind us all that such a world is possible.”
― Number the Stars
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