The Tattooist of Auschwitz Quotes

“If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“To save one is to save the world,”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“We stand in shit but let us not drown in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“I know he is not perfect, but I also know he will always put me first.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“you will honor them by staying alive, surviving this place and telling the world what happened here.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“How can someone do this to another human being? He wonders if for the rest of his life, be it short or long, he will be defined by this moment, this irregular number: 32407.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Then teach me. I want the girl I marry to like me, to be happy with me.'
Lale's mother sat down, and he took a seat across from her. 'You must first learn to listen to her. Even if you are tired, never be too tired to listen to what she has to say. Learn what she likes, and more importantly what she doesn't like. When you can, give her little treats - flowers, chocolates - women like these things.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“It’s only your own space if you make it yours.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“How can a race that is spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“To save one is to save the world.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“His mother he can see perfectly. But how do you say goodbye to your mother? The person who gave you breath, who taught you how to live?”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Be attentive, Lale; remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through.”
― Heather Morrisová, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Lale’s emotional connection to his mother had shaped the way he related to girls and women. He was attracted to all women, not just physically but emotionally. He loved talking to them; he loved making them feel good about themselves. To him, all women were beautiful and he believed there was no harm in telling them so. His mother and sister subliminally taught Lale what it was a woman wanted from a man, and so far he had spent his life trying to live up to these lessons. “Be attentive, Lale; remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.” He heard his mother’s sweet voice.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“The girls who work there dream of a place far away where there is plenty of everything and life can be what they want it to be. They have decided Canada is such a place.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“She was singing. Wow, I thought to myself, they have just lost everything and Mum is singing? She sat me down to tell me what was going on and I asked her, ‘How can you just pack and sing?’ With a big smile on her face she said that when you spend years not knowing if in five minutes’ time you will be dead, there is not much that you can’t deal with. She said, ‘As long as we are alive and healthy, everything will work out for the best.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“And that makes her a hero. You’re a hero, too, my darling. That the two of you have chosen to survive is a type of resistance to these Nazi bastards. Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“how do you say goodbye to your mother? The person who gave you breath, who taught you how to live? He cannot say goodbye to her.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“You must first learn to listen to her. Even if you are tired, never be too tired to listen to what she has to say. Learn what she likes and, more important, what she doesn’t like.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore,”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Things are as they are. What I can see, feel, hear and smell right now.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Be attentive, Lale; remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.’ He heard his mother’s sweet voice.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“The tattooing has taken only seconds, but Lale’s shock makes time stand still. He grasps his arm, staring at the number. How can someone do this to another human being? He wonders if for the rest of his life, be it short or long, he will be defined by this moment, this irregular number: 32407.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror

I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down.”
― Heather Morrisová, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“To him, all women were beautiful and he believed there was no harm in telling them so.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Save the one, save the world,”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz