I shook with helplessness and rage, but a... - Alan Gratz - Quotes.Pub

I shook with helplessness and rage, but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. To fight back was to die quickly and to take others with you. This was why prisoners went meekly to their deaths. I had been so resolved to fight back, but I knew then that I wouldn't. To suffer quietly hurt only you. To suffer loudly, violently, angrily--to fight back--was to bring hurt and pain and death to others.

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No. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning,” Lito said, looking up into the red-tinged clouds. “A storm is coming.

Mr. Pilkey smiled. “Well, I wish they were on the shelves, where everybody could read them,” he said. “I think it’s important that libraries be a place where you can find all kinds of books. Good ones, bad ones, funny ones, serious ones. Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it’s valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

Fear isn’t a weakness. Anyone who’s never been afraid is a fool.

Little Mariano was at home, getting fat.

Head down, hoodie up, eyes on the ground. Be unimportant. Blend in.

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. No matter where we had come from, we had no country. We were only Jews.

That means letting them read books that are too easy for them, or too hard for them. That means letting them read books that challenge them, or do nothing but entertain them. And yes, it means letting students read books with things in them we might disagree with and letting them make up their own minds about things, which is downright scary sometimes. But that’s what good education is all about.

Josef followed the small group of kids through the raised doorway onto the bridge of the St. Louis. The bridge was a narrow, curving room that stretched from one side of the ship to the other. Bright sunlight streamed in through two dozen windows, offering a panoramic view of the vast blue-green Atlantic and wispy white clouds. Throughout the wood-decked room were metal benches with maps and rulers on them, and the walls were dotted with mysterious gauges and meters made of shining brass.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn’t matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

Ichariba choodee,” she said in Okinawan. It meant, “Now that we’ve met, we’re family.

That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn’t have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o’clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them. But I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come. None of us did.

They lined the men up against a wall in the assembly yard. Rat-tat-tat-tat! The watch officer gunned them down himself, riddling their bodies with bullets.

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn’t so sure myself anymore.

But as she watched Lito and Papi lift up Ivan’s body, the empty place inside got bigger and bigger, until she was more empty than full.

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

You Americans think you can fix everything by throwing money at it,” she added. “But your friend was right. This is like the Stone Age. Because no one will let us get past the Stone Age. Not when there is nothing but war. Do you understand? The best thing you can do to help us is leave us alone.

I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you’ve become one yourself.

You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.

If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.

Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it – how we treat our fellow man.

Michael, it’s terrible to say so, but sometimes you have to weigh the cost of one man’s life against the value of an entire operation.

Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

There were some horrors you couldn’t fight and couldn’t change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Being brave doesn’t mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.

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