Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
21 quotes
"Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake.."
"Please tell me the truth about yourself."
"Do not throw me out. Please."
"Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence."
"Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother."
"You have to able to manage on your own."
"What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith."
"A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…"
"Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own."
"Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy."
"Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number"
"I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt."
"I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?"
"We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death."
"You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them."
"What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world."
"Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?"
"Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable"
"Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!"
"I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage."
"Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are."