“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
About this quote
Vonnegut uses the story to set up his own habit of looking back at a bombed city and at the people in it. The tenderness in the sentence is for the woman who disobeyed, and it is aimed squarely at readers who enjoy war stories.
Source: Slaughterhouse-Five, Chapter 1