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"You will help me?"

"Of course. I'm your mother. What are mothers for but to teach their little ones?"

"To hate?"

Nyra nodded.

Otulissa is smitten

“I don’t even know who my mother was,” Jon said.
“Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are.” He favored Jon with a rueful grin.
“Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs.”

"Anne's Diary ends here."

'I can’t imagine how anyone could say “I’m weak” and
then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it,
why not develop your character? Their answer has always been:
“Because it’s much easier not to!” '

Amen

"What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews."

The parallels to what's going on today are outrageously obvious. How are people so blind to history repeating itself?

"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, great wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again"

"I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!"

"Who has inflicted this on us? Who has set us apart from all the rest?
Who has put us through such suffering? It’s God who has made us the
way we are, but it’s also God who will lift us up again. In the eyes of
the world, we’re doomed, but if, after all this suffering, there are still
Jews left, the Jewish people will be held up as an example."

The parallels to what's happening in Gaza are painful

"Yes Kitty, Anna is a crazy child. But I do live in crazy times and under still crazier circumstances."

"What’s more, it’s my opinion that the war is making very little
progress. The Germans will win in the end." Her insight at such a young age is spectacular! Truly an intelligent child.

"Don’t get me wrong, I’m terribly upset about what’s happened to poor, good-hearted Mr. M., but there’s not much room for him in my diary."

Oh Anna...

"I don’t think about all the misery, but about the
beauty that still remains"

I am deeply invested!

I will say that I finally begin to see the deep-rooted influence of this story on a lot of fantasy books that I've read so far. The Owls of Ga'Hoole series (Soren is, and I dare say, a more interesting version of Frodo) and the Dark Rise series with the Stewards being a pretty obvious parallel to the elves, the entire dark shadow chase scene had an uncanny resemblance.