Jodi Weaver

“There are no accidents in our lives, because events are an outcome of all that has ever occurred, and whatever befalls us had to happen and couldn’t have been avoided.”
― Otto Kraus, The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“would have the same hide and graze in the same field.”
― Otto Kraus, The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz Survivor

“An animal that doesn’t know it’s going to the slaughterhouse allows itself to be led there much more docilely than one that knows it’s going to be sacrificed and thus puts up all kinds of resistance.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz