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Quotes from The Journey — Ida Fink

1921–2011 Israel

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5 quotes

If the police didn't show up before then. Always that little word: if. (p178)

The Journey (1990)

After he left, no one laughed out loud anymore. Quiet snickering, muffled by blankets, rippled through the room. And those laughing whispers frightened us more than the hysterical screams. (p93)

The Journey (1990)

Again we thought, let us survive-but now we were talking about the bombs and the rattling guns. (p237)

The Journey (1990)

The car was silent. But just as we reached the door, came the first whispers: "Jews. They caught some Jews." (p29)

The Journey (1990)

Sometimes even I would return from work, open the door, and feel as if I were seeing a stage on which the last act of a play was about to begin at any moment. (p18)

The Journey (1990)

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