“ Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of… Fern Schumer Chapman
“ Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life. Fern Schumer Chapman
“ The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips… Fern Schumer Chapman
“ The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off. Fern Schumer Chapman
