The Goddess Of Warsaw Quotes

Once you decide you are no longer a lamb but a wolf, everything changes.

And yet, this death trap is no match for the lust eclipsing my heart, the constant unrequited craving. If I die tomorrow, I want him. Once. I’m asking you, God. You’ve taken so much already. Give me Aleksander and the rest of my fate is yours to play with. Do we have a deal?

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Survival is about secrets, about extraordinary measures taken to stay alive. If you survived, it means others did not. The trauma of a second chance at life, a second act, is at once miraculous and unendurable.

Survival is not heroic; it is ugly. All

A Jew who doesn’t look like a Jew, I’ve been told my whole life.

The only way to survive this endless nightmare is to pretend that our past, the lives we once thought belonged to us forever,

stooped to my lowest denominator, risen to my highest calling.

a sick, distorted path to survival.

cries of more

My husband’s efforts are admirable but won’t save us. I am not admirable, but I have guts.

Your face . . . how far will you go to use it?

there.

I am not a star. I am a comet—a ball of gas, rock, and debris camouflaged in a spray of light.