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“Their fellow Pennsylvanians knew nothing about the shattered shtetls and destroyed synagogues of the old country; they had not set eyes on the stunned elderly immigrants starving in tenements in New York, the old ones who came alone, who spoke Yiddish only, whose children died or left them to live in charity homes, the women frightened until the end, the men consigned to a life of selling vegetables and fruits on horse-drawn carts. They were a lost nation spread across the American countryside, bewildered, their yeshiva education useless, their proud history ignored, as the clankety-clank of American industry churned around them, their proud past as watchmakers and tailors, scholars and historians, musicians and artists, gone, wasted. Americans cared about money.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“Being called upon to do something because you're good at it is not the same thing as having a calling.”
― Julia Whelan

“The darker the night the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief the closer is God.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What are you so happy about? I’m mad at you. At least have the decency to look embarrassed.” Bear twitched her ears. Bear and decency clearly had nothing to do with each other.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance