Lot’s wife: “To look back was to turn into a tall mound of nothing but grief, dry grief. Not a punishment but a natural consequence. She turned into salt because those who looked back turned into salt. Not a punishment. A fact.” Pg 72
“Lola had studied genocide at Yale University, years ago. What Chaim would not discuss at home, she discussed in class, read in books, wrote in papers. Sometimes, when she was home for vacation, he would steal a look at them.” Pg 281
No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Live
Captain Fitzgerald “York leaned over to look, and read: ‘Keep your peckers up, men.’ It had been written in blood by Captain Fitzgerald.” Pg 167
On the theme of survival and just getting through the past, not ever being able to shake it, one of the guys from the story said so much. You can’t never get it over you just keep getting through it.
By Ghita SchwarzBook 41
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