Lewis

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Hiding from genocide inside a Jew's attic, thought Kugel, is like hiding from a lion inside a gazelle.”
― Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy

“Mehr Licht!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?”
― Shalom Auslander, Hope: A Tragedy