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'How nice it must be,' I say softly to Kühn's picture, 'to be haunted by questions rather than ghosts'

Hitting hard right out the gate with this one..

'Compared to you --- to your borders and magic being weakend --- I suppose my self-pity is absurd.'

'If it grieves you,' he said, the words caressing my bones, 'then I don't think its absurd at all.'

'But there was indeed a story. The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men.'

'In all our years of marriage, we have not been separated. As we have lived, so we will die.' - Ida Straus

'Distress teaches some to pray. It hardens others. Hardness is a defense mechanism which had at times its temptations for me also. If one cannot endure the sight of suffering about him he tries to build a cloak of armor about his heart. But that makes people insensitive to good influences also.'

'We have to consider that a man who has been under such enormous mental pressure for such a long time is naturally in some degree of danger after his liberation, especially since the pressure was released quite suddenly.'

Martin Niemöller : 'First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.'

'You know what they say -- some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.'

'He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
But the Gospels actually taught this:

Before you kill someone, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.'

'The busy have no time for tears'

'Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.'