Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
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“When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?”
“You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.”
“How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.”
“I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.”
“You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.”
“I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.”
“The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.”
“She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?”
“The eyes of a woman in the face of a ten-year-old girl.”
“Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.”
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Book Keywords:
infidelity, true-to-life, dismay, sorrow
