Famous Ruta Sepetys Quotes

  • Light fell, and so did my confidence. – Ruta Sepetys

    Light fell, and so did my confidence.– Ruta Sepetys

  • I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees. – Ruta Sepetys

    I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.– Ruta Sepetys

  • You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. – Ruta Sepetys

    You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.– Ruta Sepetys

  • It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys

    It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead.– Ruta Sepetys

  • But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair. – Ruta Sepetys

    But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.– Ruta Sepetys

  • How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. – Ruta Sepetys

    How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.– Ruta Sepetys

  • Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – Ruta Sepetys

    Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,– Ruta Sepetys

  • War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys

    War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.– Ruta Sepetys

  • 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. – Ruta Sepetys

    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.– Ruta Sepetys

  • 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. – Ruta Sepetys

    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.– Ruta Sepetys