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Quotes from A Scrap of Time and Other Stories — Ida Fink

1921–2011 Israel

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11 quotes

What our cousin experienced, locked up in that room, will remain forever a mystery.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Each day and night of those weeks could fill a book, if only the pen could take on this burden of despair and helpless loneliness.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

The execution itself did not take long; more time was spent on the preparatory digging of the grave.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Some questions should not even be thought. The facts alone suffice.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

He had that horrifying clarity of vision that comes just before death.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

This time was measured not in months but in a word-we no longer said "in the beautiful month of May," but "after the first 'action,' or the second, or "right before the third."

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

"I always wanted to paint. Always, before the war, that is. But I was thirteen then." ("Splinter")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

time brought all of us something quite different than what our childhoods promised.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

There are thoughts that wither under the gaze of others, that are wounded by the breath of others, that the slightest disruption destroys. ("The Other Shore")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

at the time, even eighteen-year-olds were nostalgic for the past.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

One pebble had fallen; I awaited the avalanche. ("The Other Shore")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ida Fink (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.