As good a place to suffer as any

One thing I liked about The Book Thief is that it painted a certain equatability about suffering (I guess a war will do that!). This paragraph stood out to me:

The mayor’s wife was just one of a worldwide brigade. You have seen her before, I’m certain. In your stories, your poems, the screens you like to watch. They’re everywhere, so why not here? Why not on a shapely hill in a small German town? It’s as good a place to suffer as any.

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak