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21 " A shadow set across Father Yves’s face, settling deep into the lines creasing his brow and annihilating the kindness in his gray eyes, leaving them cold and dead. "
― Ellie Midwood , The Lyon Affair (The Indigo Rebels #2)
22 " words that they had waited to say for so long, and were almost too afraid to believe: “You’re free. You’re all free now. "
― Ellie Midwood , Emilia: The Darkest Days in History of Nazi Germany Through a Woman's Eyes (Women and the Holocaust, #1)
23 " It doesn’t matter if you or I like their policies—or any party’s policies, for that matter. The majority shall decide. And we shall let them and respect their opinion. That’s the entire point of democracy. "
― Ellie Midwood , The White Rose Network
24 " and threw a concerned "
― Ellie Midwood , The Violinist of Auschwitz
25 " When one was eighteen, one didn’t believe death was on the horizon. "
26 " It’s always fear that makes one speak out against progress, the future, change. "
― Ellie Midwood , Metropolis
27 " Humans were the biggest hypocrites among all species, for they banned abortions for Aryan women and yet they had no qualms about throwing Jewish children into gas chambers. They talked about helping fellow men and yet turned entire ships full of refugees away from their shores, condemning them to death. They spoke at length of their Christian values, but when it came to offering shelter to the persecuted, they shut their doors and chased the invaders off their property with guns and curses. “Because "
― Ellie Midwood , The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz
28 " How much better the world would have been if everyone did the right thing.” “Hopefully, future generations will learn from our mistakes. "
29 " swastika flags – the only bright spots, dotted in bloody sputters throughout the faded, bleak city. "
― Ellie Midwood , The Indigo Rebels (The Indigo Rebels, #1)
30 " No, dead people weren’t frightening to her anymore, it was living people who she had to be afraid of, that she knew very well by now; the same people who she grew up with in one country and who suddenly declared war on her whole race: her fellow Germans. "
31 " Blanche was putting four more beer mugs in front of the uniform-clad patrons who frequented Monsieur Morin’s Bistro, invading the tight, smoke-filled space with their banter, when she felt a hand insolently sliding from the small of her back to her behind. Barely containing herself from slapping the sneering offender, who didn’t seem deterred in the slightest by the manner in which she straightened at once, almost spilling the beer on the grease-stained wooden table. Blanche willed herself to keep her anger at bay and forced a lopsided grin on her face instead "
32 " Everyone was thinking of what the war had taken from them. Not lives or limbs—not yet—but youthful innocence, to be sure, and along with it, trust in their leaders, in people in general. It scarred their hearts with suspicion and turned them into bitter skeptics long before they reached the age when such a nihilistic outlook on life was expected. "
33 " As if guessing his thoughts, as mothers always do, true mothers who are mothers to every soldier, the farmer’s wife pressed Marcel’s shoulder slightly. "
34 " will go nowhere. It will lie in wait until some fanatic comes and stirs all this baseness and hatred in his followers once again and reminds them of how their ancestors loathed and annihilated everything foreign and how immigrants were always the enemy and how anyone who differs from them in any way deserves to be persecuted and exterminated without mercy. I don’t "
35 " searched his memory to pinpoint the exact day when the world had turned upside down, when the criminals began to be hailed as heroes, when free press had turned into a propaganda machine, when a narcissistic, cruel dictator started to be looked upon with reverence as a savior of the nation "
36 " Thank you for keeping your humanity in a world that prides itself in ruthlessness. "
37 " insolence. "
38 " That night, she helped burn independent thought, the works of the freethinkers and, all at once, her own name—the embodiment of personal freedom itself—seemed to be a mockery. "
― Ellie Midwood , The Girl on the Platform
39 " a relatively newly elected government (Elected? Forcefully installed, and quite illegally too, after Pétain and his administration dismissed the assembly "
40 " You asked me if I was religious before. I am. My religion is a world, in which people coexist in peace and where musicians are very useful people and where German pilots can like Jewish girls from the ghetto. Sounds absurd, I know. But so do all other religions and therefore, I’ll stick to mine if you don’t mind.” I didn’t. "
― Ellie Midwood , No Woman's Land (Women and the Holocaust, #2)