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Ellie Midwood QUOTES

Ellie Midwood QUOTES

1 " Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again. Oh no, wait, I was busy with something, I was doing some renovations in my new apartment. Which legally became mine only a month ago. Yep, that's what all my life has been about, spontaneous decisions and living in the moment. Because right now technically I'm a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Russia, four years in New York, no papers, no work authorization, no work itself. Only a crazy life filled with restaurants, shops, beauty salons, clubs and restaurants again. How is it all possible? Very simple. I used to be a stripper. "

― Ellie Midwood , The New York Doll

2 " They. His own superiors became “they” to him. The alien side, the hostile side. Somehow, in the middle of this war, he switched fronts without realizing it fully. "

― Ellie Midwood , No Woman's Land (Women and the Holocaust, #2)

3 " Who would have thought that words could hold so much power, to stir so much hatred that it would eventually lead to genocide? I, for one, had always believed that we, the human race, were better than that. "

― Ellie Midwood , No Woman's Land (Women and the Holocaust, #2)

4 " I looked at him. He sat in the darkness, with his brows knitted tightly together, as though trying to grasp something, to understand the inconceivable, to pinpoint the moment when everything suddenly got out of control and the point of no return was officially passed by both sides – the future murderers and their victims. The new Reich sorted us into two kinds and now he suddenly found himself among those who held an ax above our miserable heads. "

― Ellie Midwood , No Woman's Land (Women and the Holocaust, #2)

5 " For a month already I was carrying on my affair with him, the whole month behind the closed doors of his office with hot wet kisses, with top secret papers scattered on the floor thrown off the table in haste, Georg rolling his eyes at yet another cancelled meeting and the order not to disturb the Chief of the RSHA, winks and hidden smiles through the half opened door, and the two of us smelling of each other’s perfume. And with every day I was sinking deeper and deeper in that swamp, and didn’t even try to grab the ground that was right next to me. I was disgusted with myself like an alcoholic who wakes up in a pile of dirt, but crawls right back to the pub to fill himself again with the poisonous liquor slowly killing him with every new sip. "

― Ellie Midwood , Gruppenführer's Mistress (The Girl from Berlin, #2)

6 " Is it too much of a sin, my desire to be loved? "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

7 " he was a beautiful, almost breathtaking masterpiece of a man, in which some higher power forgot to put a soul. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

8 " Today they’re ordering you to marry, tomorrow they’ll hand you a machine gun and order you to start shooting people randomly, how about that? "

― Ellie Midwood , The Austrian: A War Criminal's Story

9 " That’s not socialism; that’s called regular human decency, if that notion is new for you! "

― Ellie Midwood , The Violinist of Auschwitz

10 " there are no Jews and Poles here, no French and no communists, there are only SS and inmates, and that’s what it all comes down to. We’re all equally nothing to them. Do you consider yourself superior to Violette because she’s a Jew and you’re a Pole? "

― Ellie Midwood , The Violinist of Auschwitz

11 " sun emerged from behind the clouds, delicately touching the tops of the trees as if ensuring that they were still in their place, where it had left them before going into hiding. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

12 " Giselle wasn’t quite a people person. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

13 " You both have the same goal, not to get caught in the past again, only you both chose entirely different paths to that goal. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

14 " Often we follow conventions that don’t suit us personally, and slowly lose ourselves in the rotten swamp of public opinion, dissolving, falling apart until nothing is left of us. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

15 " It was so easy to decide their fate, when they were nothing more than numbers on the sheets, presented to us for a signature by our adjutants. Now they were real people, with broken lives, torn families, and memories which would haunt them for the rest of their lives. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Austrian: A War Criminal's Story

16 " which was unusually quiet without Messerschmitts cutting through the butter of clouds "

― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)

17 " As the two figures navigated their way knee-deep in snow, the steel-gray crescent of the moon followed them silently from behind its hideout of threadbare clouds, thinly painted across the sky. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Lyon Affair (The Indigo Rebels #2)

18 " War is a strange thing,” Etienne continued, in what seemed to be musings which he had decided to pronounce out loud, into the stillness of the night. “It changes a man and even his way of thinking. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Lyon Affair (The Indigo Rebels #2)

19 " We’re not used to stealing things, I suppose.” Almost apologetically, I grinned back at her. “You’d never survive in the Soviet Union then. Everyone steals everything here. That’s just how things work. Factories have quotas for stealing. "

― Ellie Midwood , No Woman's Land (Women and the Holocaust, #2)

20 " Do you know what Aryan stands for, in their eyes? Ruthlessness, overachieving, and blood as cold as ice under one’s skin. Mengele just told me I embody all three. He said, he admired me. "

― Ellie Midwood , The Violinist of Auschwitz