What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
– Ruta Sepetys
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- It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys
- What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. – Ruta Sepetys
- 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
- War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. – 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
- War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
- Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. – Ruta Sepetys
- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren’t to benefit. – Ruta Sepetys
- I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. – Ruta Sepetys
- The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. – Ruta Sepetys
- Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. – Ruta Sepetys
- Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?’ I asked…’Because I love them so much. – Ruta Sepetys
- Everyone has a price,- she said.-œBut clearly not everyone has a soul, – 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
- Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – Ruta Sepetys
- How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. – 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
- You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward. – 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
- Light fell, and so did my confidence. – Ruta Sepetys
- No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul. – Ruta Sepetys
- Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. – Ruta Sepetys
- 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
- A guilty conscience is not worth extra food. – Ruta Sepetys
- We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe. – Ruta Sepetys
- Well, I don’t know, Lina. But let’s just say I’ve met a lot of dead people. – Ruta Sepetys
- 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
- The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull a pistol and plug you in the head. – Ruta Sepetys
- 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
- Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper. – Ruta Sepetys
- Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life – Sonia Rumzi
- It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. – Charles Darwin
- If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. – Gregory J Boyle
- Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend. – Sarah Schulman
- Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them. – Joyce Carol Oates
- Just because they didn’t know they were killing human beings doesn’t mean they weren’t killing human beings. – Orson Scott Card
- human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that. – Hayley Williams
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. – Young