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Category: Diane Samuels

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

horror, humanity, identity-politics, indivuality, society-problem

I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

advice, family-relationships, kindertransport, languages-and-culture, play, swearing, teenagers-and-parents

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it. 

advice, daughters, discovery, family-history, family-secrets, healing-abuse, healing-the-past, mothers, secrecy

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

family-relationships, generations, investment, jewels-for-the-mind, love, proverbs, wisdom

Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..

british-humor, cake, care, comfort-food, humor, humourous

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

families-of-victims, healing, hurt, letting-go, lies, sadness, secrets, truth, victims-of-war

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

education, frustration, love, misunderstanding, mother-s-love-adoption, trust

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

children, england, freedom, gratitude, humour, rescue, wwii

I don’t want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

children, education, kindertransport, love, mothers-and-daughters, tragedy

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.

children, death, jewels, kindertransport, life, truth, wisdom-inspirational

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

britain, bus, buses, children, joy-of-life, joyful, letters, london, love, mothers-and-daughers, wwii

You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.

children, family-history, family-values, heirlooms, love, pay-it-forward, recycling, reuse, sentimental