Quotes from The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris ·  288 pages

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“If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day.”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“What they all share is fear. And youth. And their religion. Lale tries to keep his mind off theorising about what might lie ahead. He has been told he is being taken to work for the Germans, and that is what he is planning to do. He thinks of his family back home. 'Safe'. He has made the sacrifice, has no regrets. He would make it again and again to keep his beloved family at home, together.”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“Well, Lale, a man who lectures in taxation and interest rates can't help but get involved in the politics of his country. Politics will help you understand the World until you don't understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“What has this place done to us? What has it made us become? How much longer can we go on? She thought it was all ending today.”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“Lale smiles at him. ‘Not what I was expecting either.’ ‘Where do you think we’re going?’ ‘It doesn’t matter. Just remember, we are here to keep our families safe”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz



“The girls who work there dream of a place far away where there is plenty of everything and life can be what they want it to be. They have decided Canada is such a place.”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“the girl’s arm as gently as he can, the man takes her face in his hand and turns it roughly this way and that. Lale looks”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


“occasionally nods off against his shoulder; Lale doesn’t push him away. He is just one among countless young men stuffed into”
― Heather Morris, quote from The Tattooist of Auschwitz


About the author

Heather Morris
Born place: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
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