Helen

“It is facile to condemn the French for giving in to the Nazis too easily when many French citizens would have still borne the horrendous scars of the first occupation, would have clearly remembered having to stand back while German sentries robbed them of everything but the nearly inedible ration bread because the only alternative was to be arrested, beaten, or shot. The French survived not one but two brutal occupations in a span of less than forty years, and deserve more credit for their flinty endurance than they receive.”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“History haunts him who does not honour it.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“I’d say I was lucky, but I hadn’t had enough of a relationship with the word to use it.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes