4 Quotes by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Sacrifices have to be made. Anything that gets in the way of what we are trying to do has to go.

But that’s the strange thing about hell. The longer you’re stuck in it, the less those who’ve been spared seem to notice.

One of the few certainties of human psychology,” she’d told Renate, “is that while people sometimes defy expectation, they rarely change.

Gazing at Herr Schloss’s six-pointed star of shame, it strikes Renate now that he – that all of them – are not unlike those dead stars Ilse had spoken of. They go about their lives, reading and baking and hoping, sending out the impression of still being fully living, engaged human beings. The truth, though, is that they are simply sending out ghostly light into space, obscuring the fact of their own erasure.