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“You see a lady sitting there and she's not doing anything and you tend to forget that of course she wasn't always a little old lady. There's all this colored stuff inside her, it's all inside, bubbling.”

Life And Living Old Lady Judith Kerr

Author:Judith Kerr

“They listened to them screaming down from the sky. One…two…three…four very close – five and six, thank goodness, receding. Then there was another plane and another – it can’t go on like this, thought Anna, but it did.”

Book:Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

Source: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“There was a crash, closer than the rest, which shook the building and as Anna felt the floor move a little beneath her the word “bombardment” came into her mind. I’m in a bombardment, she thought. I’m lying on the floor of the Hotel Continental in my pink pyjamas in the middle of a bombardment.”

Book:Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

Source: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“It turned out that no one in the house had spent a night in London since the beginning of the air raids, and they asked her endless questions as though she were some strange creature from another world. The maharajah, if he was one, kept saying, terrible, terrible, and how did people survive, which was silly, thought Anna, for what else could you do if you had no choice”

Book:Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

Source: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“But soon they began to arrive in large numbers both by day and by night. It was unnerving, as you went about your business, to listen to the sound of the engines which might cut out at any moment. You prayed for the buzz-bombs to keep going, but felt guilty while you did so because you knew they would only fall on someone else. And the fact that the war might soon be over made everyone wish, quite desperately, to stay alive.”

Book:Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

Source: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr

“Monsieur Fernand...took them to a large busy restaurant where they sat at a table outside on the pavement and ordered a meal. 'Snails for the children!' cried Fernand. 'They've never tried them.' Max stared at his portion in horror and could not bring himself to touch them. But Anna, encouraged by Francine, tried one and found that it tasted like a very delicious mushroom.”

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Book:When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Source: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit