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81 " For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life "
― Lois Lowry , Number the Stars
82 " The Hirsch family had gone somewhere. Why else would they close the shop? "
83 " Deer Park! Oh, I wish we could stop here, just for a little while! "
84 " and I want you all to remember—that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of—something he can work and fight for. Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still. I hope that this story of Denmark, and its people, will remind us all that such a world is possible. "
85 " I had named him Trofast – Faithful "
86 " Resistance fighters were Danish people—no one knew who, because they were very secret—who were determined to bring harm to the Nazis however they could. They damaged the German trucks and cars, and bombed their factories. They were very brave. Sometimes they were caught and killed. "
87 " That’s what brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. "
88 " Stop crying, you idiot girl,” he said harshly. “Your stupid mother has sent your uncle a handkerchief. "