I can’t believe it. Three years and eight months I’ve been in this orphanage and I haven’t had a whole carrot in my dinner bowl once.
-- Narrator (NA)

Importance: Felix is shocked when he sees a whole carrot in his soup at dinner. At first, Felix believes that it is a sign that his parents are coming for him. This quote also describes how desperate conditions are at the orphanage. They are unable to grow their own food so there is often not adequate food for everyone.

Everyone here is meant to have dead parents. If the other kids find out mine aren’t dead, they’ll get really upset and the nuns here could be in trouble with the Catholic head office in Warsaw for breaking the rules.
-- Narrator (NA)

Importance: Felix’s parents left him at the orphanage to protect him from the Nazis. When Felix sees the carrot in his...