"Head down, Hoodie up, eyes on the ground be unimportant. Blend in. Disappear. That was how you avoided the bullies."

p.269

"Mahmoud's sister was gone, and so were his father and brother."

page 163

"Fight against the impossible and win"

page 82

The dance lessons where do a lifetime ago back before Hitler back when Josef's parents would be going to dances as a teenager not running from the Nazis

"it was a different world below the decks, Josef thought. A world outside the magic little bubble he and the other jews lived above the decision the MS St.louis."

p.98

" The loss of him ached like a part of Isabel was suddenly missing

Pg 225

Was he just keeping all his tears and screams pent up inside , or was he so used to horrible things happening all around him that he didnt notice anymore? didnt care? Would he come to life again when they got to Germany? If they got to Germany?

Page 250

“Whether you were visible or invisible it was all how other people reacted to you. Good and bad things happened either way.

If you stayed invisible, here did everything you were supposed to and never made waves, you would disappear from the eyes and mind of all the good people out there who could help you get your life back.”

Pages: 281 and 282

"Suddenly, Josef was the only man of the family-the only adult in the family-whether he wanted to be or not."

pg.167

"My brother just a boy becoming a man at last."

page 315

"were not terrorists were refugees we just want to get to get to Germany

pg.251

"We sent them back to Europe and Hitler and the Holocaust, back to their deaths. How many of them died because we turned them away? Because I was just doing my job?" - page 276

"But all Josef could think about was what terrible things must have happened to his father to look awful and scared"

p.39

"What if her life was a song? No, not a song. A life was a symphony, with different movements and complicated musical forms. A song was something shorter. A smaller piece of life." - page 155

"Mahmoud Bishara was invisible and that's exactly how he wanted it. being invisible is how he survived."

p.12