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"You're mistaken, Selena. This kind of trauma isn't something you ever get over. You simply learn to live with it," the old man interrupted.”

He’s wrong, it's much more American than people think, Selena .Enslaved parents saw their children ripped away from them and sold of. Native Americans had their children taken away to become "civi-lized' in horrific state-run orphanages. Thousands of those kids died of contagious illnesses and malnutrition, then were buried in unmarked graves.
"You're right, Samuel. Here only white children are considered sacred."

“He tolerated very few people, but he hid it so well that he'd earned a reputation as a friendly guy.”

“….Nostalgia and anguish were the most overarching emotions of those years. He lived a fragmented childhood, divided between the harsh present that he wished to escape and the nebulous fantasy of a family and home, which nourished his ever-fading memories of a mythic past.”

“For Samuel, that painful pilgrimage was inevitable. His roots had been amputated the moment he'd set foot on the Kindertransport train. He had lost his parents and grandparents without any proper goodbye or logical explanation. He had grown up waiting….”

This book is healing

“The painful memories that had been stored in a secret chamber of his heart came rushing back: the shouts, the smoke, the fear, his mother, so lovely and so sad, bidding him farewell from the station, and also old Colonel Volker in his uniform, pinning a magic medal of courage in his coat.”

“None so blind as those who will not see, right?"

"Do you ever think you might be creating a legend around Miss Nadine?"
"We all have the right to make up our own legends."
"I don't need to make mine up, sir."

“I'm going to go with Miss Selena and I can take Didi; you can come with us too, Claudia. But no crying. We have to be good. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Everyone knows where we are.”