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

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

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  1. Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, – 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. 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. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  32. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  33. There is no place like the beach… where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky – Umair Siddiqui
  34. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. – Victor Hugo
  35. Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. – SA Tawks
  36. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. – Criss Jami
  37. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
  38. I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want. – Michael Jackson
  39. The sea, the sea-¦Man alone,Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness. – Scott Hastie
  40. I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. – Alain Bombard

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