“When I first met this one here, she was a rag and a bone and a hank...” – Nathan Landau, Sophie's Choice ... Movie Quotes Database

Nathan Landau

[about Sophie]

When I first met this one here, she was a rag and a bone and a hank of hair. And that was a whole year-and-a-half after the Russians had liberated the camp she was in.

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