Erin

“Don’t kill yourself on the fence, Clara,” the woman urged her. “If you do that, you’ll never know what happened to you.” It has always been the most powerful of answers to give to the intending suicide. Kill yourself and you’ll never find out how the plot ends. Clara did not have any vivid interest in the plot. But somehow the answer was adequate. She turned around. When she got back to her barracks, she felt more troubled than when she’d set out to look for the fence. But her Cracow friend had—by her reply—somehow cut her off from suicide as an option.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“They permitted witnesses, such witnesses as the red toddler, because they believed the witnesses all would perish too.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“To write these things now is to state the commonplaces of history. But to find them out in 1942, to have them break upon you from a June sky, was to suffer a fundamental shock, a derangement in that area of the brain in which stable ideas about humankind and its possibilities are kept.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“you were making them promises about a future. And would not such promises constitute, in anyone’s code, a true cruelty?”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List