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A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.
– Ruta Sepetys

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  2. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. – Ruta Sepetys
  3. What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. – Ruta Sepetys
  4. 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
  5. The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. – Ruta Sepetys
  6. Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. – Ruta Sepetys
  7. Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. – Ruta Sepetys
  8. Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?’ I asked…’Because I love them so much. – Ruta Sepetys
  9. Everyone has a price,- she said.-œBut clearly not everyone has a soul, – Ruta Sepetys
  10. War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. – Ruta Sepetys
  11. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? – Ruta Sepetys
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
  15. Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – Ruta Sepetys
  16. How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. – Ruta Sepetys
  17. 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
  18. It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys
  19. You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. – 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. We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe. – Ruta Sepetys
  26. Well, I don’t know, Lina. But let’s just say I’ve met a lot of dead people. – 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. I believe in the 20/80 rule. That’s where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards. – Brandon David Hastings
  32. Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed. – Israelmore Ayivor
  33. Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
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  35. It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
  36. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus
  37. If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission. – Chinonye J Chidolue
  38. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars. – Billy Graham
  39. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  40. Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles-”and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others. – Billy Graham

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