Some of the people in Shadow trades:

"At first, he was going to leave his pair of Colts, but the two holsters on his belt shamed him with their emptiness. He knew he would not be able to sleep tonight unless he cleaned them."

"This gold," he spoke to the floor in Yiddish. "it came from our people. It is our gold. they should not get to keep it. Those monsters, they don't get to live long good lives with the teeth of our people paying for it."

"She had no enthusiasm for human relations. ...She and Zalman were the only Jews left of the Roszowice community. Her life from before was completely obliterated."

"A great ache grew in his chest. In his anguish at both his past and present, he opened his mouth to wail, until he remembered his predicament. He chocked off his sobbing by rubbing his face on the rough brown bark."

"He also wants you to know  that the statement against murder, which made you so uncomfortable yesterday, does not refer to killing during a war."  "The statement forbidding stealing means stealing a person...but it includes stealing all kinds."

"Leoshan had driven his deuce-and-a-half to camp with the cargo bed full of goods for the black market. Along with the Safek brothers, Leoshan was supposed to be selling the stuff to the waiting crowd."