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The Orphan's Tale QUOTES

The Orphan's Tale QUOTES

1 " Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough? "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

2 " We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

3 " Never assume that you know the mind of another. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

4 " Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

5 " There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

6 " You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

7 " Though no one speaks of it, I sometimes wonder if we are marching toward extinction with each performance, too busy dancing and flying through the air to see it. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

8 " I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

9 " Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

10 " And Ruth said, 'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

11 " Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

12 " I see my own mother now, as clearly as I had the day she watched me leave. She should have fought for me, protected me with her life. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

13 " You love the people they were before, below all the awfulness that made them do this thing, you know? "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

14 " There is a flash in her eyes as she expects to be rejected yet again. How is it possible after all that she has been through that she can still let people hurt her? "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

15 " No man is worth the whole world. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

16 " His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

17 " mantra that “I can write through anything” to "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

18 " There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War. We would survive this, too. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

19 " Gerda sends Astrid flying back, then swings to her own board. Astrid soars now like a rider taming a wild beast, bending the trapeze to her own will. She spins by her ankles, by a lone knee, barely touching the bar to which I always cling fast. Gerda watches Astrid with disinterest, almost distaste. She and the other women do not like Astrid. Within days of arriving, I heard the whispers: they resent Astrid for returning and taking her spot at the top of the aerial act while they had worked for years, and for coupling up with Peter, one of the few eligible men the war had left. The girls at the home were much the same, sniping and whispering behind each other’s backs. Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough? But if Astrid notices their coldness, she doesn’t seem to mind. Or perhaps she just doesn’t have need for any of them. She certainly doesn’t need me "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale

20 " 《Alguien que no me abandonará》, pienso para mis adentros y deseo volver a ser joven, porque entonces tal vez lo hubiera creído. "

― Pam Jenoff , The Orphan's Tale