71 quotes found
“Light fell, and so did my confidence.”
“Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.”
“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.”
“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
“Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.”
“Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.”
“We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they migh...”
“My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.”
“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
“I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.”
“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”
“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”
“I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.”
“What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.”
“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.”
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”
“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”
“Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed ...”
“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.”
“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”
“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
“But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said."We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?”
