E. Merrill Brouder

“Here [...] sheer daring worked miracles; the god of courage was on their side.”
― Vasily Grossman, L'inferno di Treblinka

“Whither my heart has gone, there follows my hand, and not elsewhere.
For when the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway,
Many things are made clear, that else lie hidden in darkness.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

“Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate, These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being over; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.”
― Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived

“For the time being, Europe’s epic of mass killing is over theorized and misunderstood.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin