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Tatiana de Rosnay QUOTES

1 " Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

2 " I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

3 " When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice? "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

4 " You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

5 " How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

6 " Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

7 " The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , The House I Loved

8 " You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

9 " I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed.
I had looked at him straight in the eyes.
Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

10 " The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

11 " She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for? "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

12 " It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , The House I Loved

13 " The eyes of a woman in the face of a ten-year-old girl. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

14 " Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

15 " And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

16 " You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name."
I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading.
Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

17 " She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

18 " Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell.....She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key

19 " Emile was not like you, not attached to houses. For you, houses are like people, are they not, they have a soul, a heart, they live and breathe. Houses remember. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , The House I Loved

20 " I took his hand and pressed it hard. I could not bear to look at him any longer, so I closed my eyes and put his hand against my cheek. I cried with him. I felt his fingers grow wet with my tears, but I kept his hand there. "

― Tatiana de Rosnay , Sarah's Key