So good

"When your time comes, it comes. And tears won‘t save you."

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

"The second generation had a lot of trouble dealing with the Holocaust, my generation, we are different. We know the difference between responsibility and guilt."

"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."

"Now that I am dead, I know everything."

This: "What keeps [the historian] awake is the archive, and its myriads of the dead, who all day long have pressed their concerns upon you...you think: I could get to hate these people; and then: I can never do these people justice; and finally: I shall never get it done." Carolyn Steedman, _Dust: The Archive and Cultural History_