"You didn't shake a Parisian woman's hand, even if you were meeting her for the first time. You kissed her once on each cheek."
p. 11

"A month or so ago, her mother had sewn the stars on all her clothes. On all the family's clothes, except her little brother's. Before that their identity cards had been stamped with the word "Jew" or "Jewess."
p. 25

"The girl had watched the bodies being carried out. She had never seen such horror."
p. 55

"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget!"
p. 60

"Over there, she thought...