- Nell Dawson: With every month that passes things will become easier for you. Six months from now you'll be accepted here.
- Frieda: By you?
- Nell Dawson: By nine people out of ten.
- Frieda: By you?
- Nell Dawson: I'm the tenth.
- Nell Dawson: Yes, I was wrong. No matter who they are, no matter what they've done, you can't treat human beings as though they were less than human... without becoming less than human yourself.
- Frieda: [after watching a newsreel about the liberation of Belsen] I knew. I knew there were such places. We all knew.