"It happened the first week of April, I think. (beginning of "The Lord's Prayer")"

"A miracle that he was even speaking, and then to say what he had said. Usually you hear only about the things that ex…"

"It had all been in vain. The prayers in churches and in mosques-all in vain. The invocations, the appeals to long-for…"

"He stopped before a shopwindow, and we recognized his face. On the left side of his forehead, just below the hairline…"

"One morning in September 1940, when the largest swastika flag in all of the countries occupied by Germany was flying …"

"They're saying that the Montreal went down between Dakar and Martinique. That she ran into a mine. The shipping compa…"

""With me it's something else," he said. "I'm Jewish. For me the magnanimity of the German people was never even a con…"

"The Spaniards waiting there gathered around us, watching our reunion and smiling with the indomitable hearts of passi…"

"And yet although all this transit whispering made me feel quite miserable, it was amazing to think that even though t…"

"[He] got up out of bed and stuck his head out of his little window as far as he could. It was utterly quiet. But for …"