Amy

“Oskar's particular blessings are blessings that only a major cosmopolitan city can bestow on a refugee. They represent all our potential to survive and even thrive in the face of great loss.”
― Richard Simon, Oskar and the Eight Blessings

“Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Oskar is the fruit of those fantasies -- the idea that what needed to be saved was not just lives but hope.”
― Richard Simon, Oskar and the Eight Blessings