Journey To Topaz Quotes

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.

The past is never just the past.

I would ask readers to remember that my characters portray the Japanese Americans of 1942 and to recall that the world then was totally different from the one we know today. In 1942 the voice of Martin Luther King had not yet been heard and ethnic pride was yet unborn. There was no awareness in the land of civil rights, and there had yet been no freedom marches or demonstrations of protest. Most Americans, supporting their country in a war they considered just, did nothing to protest our forced removal, and might well have considered it treasonous had we tried to resist or protest.

Mother knew it was difficult to have tea and cake with someone and still be unfriendly.

Nico curled his fingers around the coin. He dreaded the upcoming journey, but he also felt the residual warmth of the stories they had shared. They clung to him, wrapping around him like a protective layer. From Gorgyra’s dress, the voices reached out to Nico one last titime, but now he heard something besides devastation and fear … Hope. You might just make it, one said. You keep that one close. Someone like that is a rare find. You are not alone. The whispers dissipated and returned to Gorgyra’s gown, turning the fabric a luminous pink, like imperial topaz. ‘Thank you, Gorgyra,’ Nico said quietly. ‘The stories were to give us strength for the journey, weren’t they?’ ‘They were,’ she said, her voice raw with emotion. ‘But it is I who should be thanking you. You came and visited an old nymph. You offered me kindness, and you showed me that love and companionship still exist in the mortal world.