Chaya Spiegel
- Quote from Search for the Lost Children
Magda seemed to shrink before their eyes. Her adopted daughter's child was accusing her, with her cousins, all giants, it seemed, standing staunchly behind her. She covered her face and cried, for the first time in twenty years, the first time since her husband's death, and they stood watching her as she covered her face with her hands.
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- The Future of New York
There is great promise here, Esther. This country will grow. There is an unthinkable amount of land to be settled in the west. New Amsterdam is a capital already. It will be a great metropolis in future years, and a home for all. There will be cruelty, and poverty, and assimilation, and war. It won't be easy. But it will happen.
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- Description of Peter Stuyvesant
"You are not welcome here." Those were the first words we heard in this city. They came from a tall man, with a long nose and balding scalp. His hair is black, as I believe his soul is. We gasped and the children screamed when we saw that he has a false leg. From where we were standing, it shone down and blinded us. At first I thought it was all silver, but then I realized that it was only wood. There are several silver bands on, and I heard one of the citizens calling the man "Silver Leg."
