“remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
“To save one is to save the world,”
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
“May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.”
― Then She Was Gone
― Then She Was Gone
“Where do [writers] get [their] ideas? And the answer is that no one knows where the come from and nobody should know. They evolve in thin air, they float down from some mysterious heaven, and we reach and grab one, to grasp in our imagination, and to make it our own. One writer might overhear a conversation in a cafe and a whole novel will be built from that moment. Another might see an article in a newspaper and a plot will suggest itself immediately. Another might hear about an unpleasant incident that happened to a friend of a friend in a supermarket . . . .”
― A Ladder to the Sky
― A Ladder to the Sky
“We stand in shit but let us not drown in it.”
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
― The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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