Carol Matas quotes

“(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg”
-- Carol Matas

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“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg”
-- Carol Matas

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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.”
-- Carol Matas

Source : Carol Matas (1993). “Daniel's Story”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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“I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.”
-- Carol Matas

Source : Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“I want to have the memories of my time with you to keep me warm.”

“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Source : Rosemary Altea (2008). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.203, Penguin

“The power of the computer is starting to spread.”

“Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.”

“You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.”

“Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

“Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.”