The Devil's Arithmetic

Rabbi:
It was in the book. The arithmetic, the numbers. You add, you subtract, and there are no more Jews.

Rivkah:
Which is worse, knowing or not knowing?

Hannah Stern:
[laboring in the camp] How are you doing?

Leah:
I'm on my honeymoon.

Hannah Stern:
Do you know what a stupid girl I used to be? I almost got one of these put on! [shows the number tattooed on her arm] Can you believe that? I wanted to get tattooed!

Rivkah:
Don't talk foolishness!

Hannah Stern:
It is foolishness, isn't it? My whole life has been foolishness. I'm being punished, that's it, God is punishing me.

Rivkah:
I forbid you to say that. Is God punishing me? Is He punishing the children? I won't believe that.

Hannah Stern:
Then why? Why?

Rivkah:
Ask them why. Ask the Nazis, not me, don't ask me.

Leah:
If you do not let me go with my child, I will kill you. I swear, I will kill you! And neither God nor the devil will stop me.

Commandant Krieger:
If that is your wish, I never say no to a lady.

Hannah Stern:
What I still don't understand is how so many people could be punished, men, women, and babies who didn't even have a chance to think about God.

Aunt Eva:
Once I would have said you have to ask the Nazis. But now I know better, and I say you have to ask God. There is no one else. Do you know how to talk to God?

Hannah Stern:
So quietly that only God can hear me.

Rivkah:
They're burning our synagogue!

Hannah Stern:
I know! I know! Rivkah, what's worse? Knowing, or not knowing?

Rivkah:
I don't know.

Hannah Stern:
[the Nazis approach the wedding ceremony] What year is it?

Rivkah:
5703.

Hannah Stern:
5000? That's impossible, this isn't the future.

Rivkah:
Ah, you mean the Christian calendar. 1941, October 1941.

Hannah Stern:
They're Nazis! No! They will kill... it's 6 million Jews. Don't ask me how I know, I just do.

Mina:
Hannah, hold her leg tighter!

Hannah Stern:
I'm trying!

Mina:
Don't try, DO it! You're not a little girl anymore.

Commandant Krieger:
You know why we don't allow babies: they can't work!

Hannah Stern:
I was thinking about how much help I could be to all of us.

Rivkah:
What do you mean?

Hannah Stern:
I had a history teacher who spent a whole semester talking about the Jews during the war, you know what I was doing? I was writing notes to my friends. I have no idea what my teacher said. The only thing I remember is that no one paid any attention to all of this.

Rivkah:
You have a very vivid imagination, and it is causing you much needless pain.

Hannah Stern:
I wish that was true.

Hannah:

she gon skrt and hit the dab like wiz khalifa

Rivka:

If this is any indication of what the future is like, I would be glad to die here

And i oop sksks we are like- totally gonna get gassed and junk sksks and i oop and i oop