30 Quotes by Jessica Shattuck

Yet here they were, carrying groceries, holding children’s hands, turning their collars up against the wind. As if their moments of truth – the decisions by which they would be judged and would judge themselves – hadn’t already come and passed.

Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people’s most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.

Benita held no reverence for anything old or historic. History was horrible, a long, sloppy tail of grief. It swished destructively behind the present, toppling everyone’s own personal understanding of the past.