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Quotes from the Book
Sometimes people help others without having any idea they are doing it.
I would like to participate in the huge, infinite universe.
Some things in life you have to accept—no one knows that better than you do—but you don't have to be fatalistic about it. The art lies most often," he smiled, "in being able to distinguish between what you have to accept and what you don't.
Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.
Love is one thing; the real world something else entirely.
We as human beings have an obligation to face up to the dreams that we keep hidden deep within ourselves. Only what we do out of love is successful in the long run. But first we have to figure out what it is that we love.
There are some things that you have to do alone.
We all have dreams, but we're better off burying them.
You always have to pay. I am not who I would like to be. I am a wife and the mother of three children, nothing more.
There isn't any hurry if you have found what you have spent your life looking for.
I am of the opinion that every person, whether man or woman, discovers his own talents and aptitudes and that we as human beings have an obligation to face up to the dreams that we keep hidden deep within ourselves.
She had entered it like a shooting star flashing across the night sky—and she’d evaporate just as quickly.
About Dörthe Binkert
About the book
At the turn of the twentieth century, five thousand people a day arrived at New York’s Ellis Island, their journeys to America signifying a new beginning. But the ocean crossing also has a deeper symbolic meaning: there comes a time for us all when we find ourselves afloat, between phases of our lives, where we say goodbye to our past and move on to new horizons. For Valentina Meyer, harboring a deep secret of tremendous guilt and pain drives her to board a trans-Atlantic voyage as a stowaway, searching desperately for a new life on a distant shore. Accompanying her is a varied cast of eccentric and unique individuals, each in search of a new and better life. Finding solace—even love—in the companionship of their fellow guests, their arrival in America puts an abrupt end to their camaraderie as Valentina’s future is immediately put in jeopardy. A probing, affecting exploration of the h
Book details
- First published
- 2007
- Author
- Dörthe Binkert
- Genre
- Historical
- Goodreads rating
- 3.31 (3k ratings)
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1Q84
Eleven Minutes
Every Exquisite Thing
Endless Night
The Winner Stands Alone
Dream Count
Q & A
Invisibility
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
And the Mountains Echoed
The Forgotten Garden
The Walk
Vanishing Acts
Turtles All the Way Down
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Sexing the Cherry
Every Heart a Doorway
Embers
Night Film
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Witch of Portobello
The Stone Diaries
The Valley of Amazement
Golden Fool
Life After Life
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Valley of the Dolls
At the Edge of the Universe
The Secret Life of Bees
The Ones We're Meant to Find
The Illusion of Separateness
It Happens for a Reason
A Passage to India
A Stolen Life
Outline
Daisy Darker
The Shadow of the Wind
One
The Light Between Oceans
My Sister's Keeper
The Last Flight
Journey by Moonlight
Immortal
The Luminaries
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
The Secrets She Keeps
Humans of New York
Chances Are...
The Paris Secret
Second Glance
The Map of the Sky
Anna Karenina
Engleby
A Room with a View
The Nice and the Good
No One Writes Back
Beautiful Ugly
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Cutting for Stone
Odd Hours

