“I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.”

“Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.”

“Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?”

“All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn.”

“My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.”

“Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. Life keeps on moving until, one day, it stops.”

“In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't admit that they themselves have ever gone to a prostitute: "Yeah, it should be legal, and I have no...”

“They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.”

“In 1939, Hitler expanded the German Navy and, in violation of the Munich Agreement, occupied parts of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Germany then established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mor...”

“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”

“Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind, To walk in those fields again with hera dream divi...”

“As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius r...”