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so far it is about how the nazis impacted the authors hometown, his childhood, and his family. it also goes into some of the details of his life, he just moved to france for school on a visa.

“‘Why did you do it?’ ‘I don’t know. It was like falling into a hole and it keeps getting bigger and bigger, you can’t get out. And then all of a sudden it’s inside you, it is you, and you’re trapped, and it’s all over.”(231)

“…no, but life is not fair always, or sane, or good, or anything. It just is.”(213)

“Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.”(211)

“‘Ah, God, I don’t know. I don’t know, it just keeps coming, I can’t make it stop!’ ‘Don’t, then.’ ‘I can’t! I can’t get through this! It’s all hanging over my head!’”(205)

“And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can’t we talk about it? Why can’t we ever talk about it?”(119)

“‘Sometimes,’ he says, ‘when you let yourself feel, all you feel is lousy.’ … ‘Maybe you gotta feel lousy sometimes, in order to feel better.’”(93)

“Too much thinking can ruin you.” (30)

“‘…Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?’ Sure. How bad? Razor-blade bad?” (2)