Status Updates From Charlotte Gray

At the hour of my death I would wish to be “known to God.”

“Like language, art struggles with what is common, to disturb the individual habit of perception and, by disturbing it, to enable men to see what has been lived and seen by others. By upsetting, therefore, it tries to soothe, because it hopes to free each person from the tyranny of solitude.”

“She was not fooled by their superficial absurdity: British people laughed at Hitler and his preposterous acolytes, but as German philosophers long before the Nazis might have argued, abstract evil did not choose the form in which it emerged in the particular.”

“But they said night flight required a special kind of skill, or at least a kind of calm,because the process of reading instruments was not an art, but a form of trust.”