“It started innocently enough. Few of the townspeople thought Hitler’s rise to power would bring misery on the whole of Germany. Probably no one at all foresaw that misery spilling out over almost the entire world.”
“I wasn’t with her when the fever started. I didn’t even know she was sick. I’d known nearly everything about her until then, and could have recalled the smallest detail of any given day, whether she’d spent it with me or not.”
“The thing to do when your house is being searched, your husband arrested, and your bank accounts seized is to procure large amounts of Xanax. Dip into hidden reserves. Borrow from your neighbors. High-quality painkillers are even better. There is codeine. Percocet or Darvocet. The ultimate is oxycodone.”
