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

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

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  1. Well, I don’t know, Lina. But let’s just say I’ve met a lot of dead people. – Ruta Sepetys
  2. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren’t to benefit. – Ruta Sepetys
  3. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. – Ruta Sepetys
  4. What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. – Ruta Sepetys
  5. Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give. – Ruta Sepetys
  6. The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. – Ruta Sepetys
  7. Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. – Ruta Sepetys
  8. Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. – Ruta Sepetys
  9. Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?’ I asked…’Because I love them so much. – Ruta Sepetys
  10. Everyone has a price,- she said.-œBut clearly not everyone has a soul, – Ruta Sepetys
  11. War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. – Ruta Sepetys
  12. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? – Ruta Sepetys
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
  16. Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – Ruta Sepetys
  17. How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. – Ruta Sepetys
  18. 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
  19. It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys
  20. 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
  21. Light fell, and so did my confidence. – Ruta Sepetys
  22. No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul. – Ruta Sepetys
  23. Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. – Ruta Sepetys
  24. My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death’s music box. Somewhere inside, I didn’t want the melody to end. – Ruta Sepetys
  25. A guilty conscience is not worth extra food. – Ruta Sepetys
  26. We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe. – Ruta Sepetys
  27. And she didn’t judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same. – Ruta Sepetys
  28. The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull a pistol and plug you in the head. – Ruta Sepetys
  29. He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.’I’m a murderer. – Ruta Sepetys
  30. Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper. – Ruta Sepetys
  31. Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  32. Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others. – Victor Manuel Rivera
  33. EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. – Idries Shah
  34. Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation. – John StahlWert
  35. Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing. – Vironika Tugaleva
  36. So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?”No, it was a reward for not being Bryce, – Beverly Connor
  37. There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life’s reward. – Bryant McGill
  38. Stand strong. Stand firm. Stand tall like tower. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  39. Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear. – Susan Barbara Apollon
  40. Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. – Jaleigh Johnson

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