Quote by

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked...'Because I love them so much.

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?’ I asked…’Because I love them so much.
– Ruta Sepetys

Related Quotes:

  1. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren’t to benefit. – Ruta Sepetys
  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. Everyone has a price,- she said.-œBut clearly not everyone has a soul, – Ruta Sepetys
  9. War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. – Ruta Sepetys
  10. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? – Ruta Sepetys
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
  14. Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – Ruta Sepetys
  15. How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. – Ruta Sepetys
  16. 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
  17. It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys
  18. You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. – Ruta Sepetys
  19. 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
  20. Light fell, and so did my confidence. – Ruta Sepetys
  21. No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul. – Ruta Sepetys
  22. Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. – Ruta Sepetys
  23. 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
  24. A guilty conscience is not worth extra food. – 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. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. – Harper Lee
  32. The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking. – Johnnie Dent Jr
  33. Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
  34. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
  35. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
  36. Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle
  37. Beautiful face doesn’t makes your heart beautiful,But a beautiful heart always projects you as a beautiful person. – Shashank Rayal
  38. There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  39. Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
  40. And be very careful at the front, Paul.-Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! – Erich Maria Remarque

More Quotes

, , , ,