“Create a story of which you will be proud.”
―
Pam Jenoff,
The Lost Girls of Paris
“Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Never assume that you know the mind of another.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl
“But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Though no one speaks of it, I sometimes wonder if we are marching toward extinction with each performance, too busy dancing and flying through the air to see it.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“You know, when you were little and you got hurt or scared, I could make it all better with a hug or treat. But when your children get older, it becomes less and less easy to heal their wounds.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“And Ruth said, 'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can’t put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home” ― pam Jenoff
“Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Never assume that you know the mind of another.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl
“But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“You love the people they were before, before all the awfulness that made them do this thing.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Though no one speaks of it, I sometimes wonder if we are marching toward extinction with each performance, too busy dancing and flying through the air to see it.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“You know, when you were little and you got hurt or scared, I could make it all better with a hug or treat. But when your children get older, it becomes less and less easy to heal their wounds.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“And Ruth said, 'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can’t put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris
“Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.” ― Pam Jenoff, The Orphan's Tale
“Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home” ― pam Jenoff
