{"quotes":[{"text":"Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.","author":"Denis Avey","tags":["history","remember-your-past","ww2","ww2-holoscaust"],"id":6457,"author_id":"Denis+Avey"},{"text":"‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.","author":"David Benioff","tags":["city-of-thieves","history","inspirational","jewish","jews","pessimism","russia","russian","story","world-war-ii","ww2"],"id":42726,"author_id":"David+Benioff"},{"text":"Then help us.”“I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?”“You try.","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["bravery","resistance","world-war-two","ww2"],"id":42738,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"},{"text":"There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Black Death. Nobody recalls the shite in the 30s and that were fucking horrible. For Christ's sake, nobody wants to remember the shite in the 80s. It's all forgotten and swept under the rug by the newspapers and the BBC. They get nostalgic about the music, but they never want to mention the misery. It's all shite. As for the bloody Second World War, the politicians only talk about it when they need an excuse to go pissing about in one of those fucking Muslim countries.","author":"Harry Leslie Smith","tags":["forgetting-the-past","memory","nostalgia","politicians","remembering","ww2"],"id":46443,"author_id":"Harry+Leslie+Smith"},{"text":"That evening we sat in the courtyard of the hotel once more, watching the sun sink below the western isles. I told Alexi what had happened that day. I fancied I could glimpse the grey stone wall of Lismore House on its island hilltop, the red light of the setting sun glinting from the windows, and from there the wasted frame of Jonathan Blake gazing out across the sea, on nothing, his boy waiting for him to die. But it was my fantasy, simply the image on my mind, like the image burned on to your eyes when you have stared too long at the sun, the passing footprint of a creature long gone.","author":"P.B. North","tags":["leaving-pimlico","mystery","norway","novel","pb-north","romance","suspense","ww2"],"id":48684,"author_id":"P.B.+North"},{"text":"That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.","author":"David Benioff","tags":["city-of-thieves","history","inspirational","jewish","jews","pessimism","russia","russian","story","world-war-ii","ww2"],"id":60731,"author_id":"David+Benioff"},{"text":"Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams.","author":"Dan Davin","tags":["anzac","breathing-spaces","cassino","dan-davin","heart","in-transit","selected-stories","short-stories","waiting","war","war-stories","ww2"],"id":66810,"author_id":"Dan+Davin"},{"text":"The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.","author":"Denis Avey","tags":["history","inspirational","mind","mindset","positive","true","ww2"],"id":104787,"author_id":"Denis+Avey"},{"text":"I took a deep breath of the syrupy sweetness of summer, suffused with bees and birds, and I thought to myself how beautiful this world can be. How lucky we are to be here, to be part of it, for however long we have.","author":"Jennifer Ryan","tags":["death","england","life","life-lessons","nature","nature-s-beauty","ww2"],"id":113254,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ryan"},{"text":"A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?","author":"Anthony Doerr","tags":["child","children","half-breed","ingenuity","jews","naivety","ww2"],"id":134437,"author_id":"Anthony+Doerr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}