“No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god,"No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened to me; my childhood. (Auschwitz).”

“What happened to my family should never happen to any parents. But it will. And this book is for them.”

“Life had given me another sucker punch. I should have been used to it. I should have already known what was happening and what would happen. How it felt to be in the dark hole that was death.”

“I’d never felt like this, like I wanted to climb into another person’s skin.”

“t can be eye-opening to think of some of the unrealistic expectations we hold ourselves to. These are the “shoulds” we set up in our lives which then become the breeding ground for embarrassment: I should never spill a drink; I should never lose my footing, even on slippery pavement; I should never misunderstand another person’s behavior (the latter misunderstanding having constituted my “chrysalis crime.”)”

“And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?”