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That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture. — Ruta Sepetys

What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer? — Ruta Sepetys

Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie. — Ruta Sepetys

Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I — Ruta Sepetys

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit. — Ruta Sepetys

It's crazy, but it's just money. There's lots of ways to get money, — Ruta Sepetys

So, you hate me?" He laughed.
How could Mother have tolerated Kretzsky? She claimed he had helped her.
"I hate me, too," he said. — Ruta Sepetys

You think of nothing but yourself. If you want to kill yourself, what's keeping you?' I said. Silence sat between out stares.
'Fear,' he said. — Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness. — Ruta Sepetys

This was the type of man who looked at a picture on the wall and instead of admiring the photo, looked at his own reflection in the glass. I — Ruta Sepetys

I was a marionette. He loved pulling the strings. — Ruta Sepetys

So I build my own nest and feather it with thoughts of you. — Ruta Sepetys

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

Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place. — Ruta Gedmintas

I think trying to create intimacy on a set with a boom over your head can be a little embarrassing. — Ruta Gedmintas

I like to have fun on photo shoots. — Ruta Gedmintas

the poet Emerson said that when we have worn out our shoes, the strength of the journey has passed into our body. — Ruta Sepetys

You see, fear is a hunter. It encircles us when we are unarmed and least expect it. And then we are forced to make decisions. — Ruta Sepetys

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys

Massachusetts has no idea what's coming for them. I bet you'll be the first Mae West they've ever had. — Ruta Sepetys

And there Emilia rests. She is safe. She is loved. Affectionately, Clara Christensen — Ruta Sepetys

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. — Ruta Sepetys

Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was — Ruta Sepetys

Our sense of humor," said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. "They can't take that away from us, right? — Ruta Sepetys

We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived? — Ruta Sepetys

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out. — Ruta Sepetys

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the rifht to do wrong. — 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

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.
We were about to become cigarettes. — Ruta Sepetys

A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. — Ruta Sepetys

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be taken by anybody else, these pages must be shown. — Ruta Sepetys

Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives. — Ruta Sepetys

That doesn't make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into. — Ruta Sepetys

Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The — Ruta Sepetys

Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people. — 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

Patrick wanted someone else. I wanted him to be happy, but why couldn't he be happy with me? I knew the answer. He couldn't choose me. — Ruta Sepetys

We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe. — Ruta Sepetys

We were not Germanizable. But our soil was." Emilia p11 — Ruta Sepetys

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. — Ruta Sepetys

Be in control of your piece, Jo. The minute it takes control of you, you're dead, Willie would tell me. — Ruta Sepetys

Mother wrapped her arms around Jonas, kissing his hair. — Ruta Sepetys

She held her breath in one hand and her suitcase in the other. — Ruta Sepetys

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

She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland. — Ruta Sepetys

Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death. — Ruta Sepetys

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong. — Ruta Sepetys

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me. — Ruta Sepetys

But I had learned to read very young. They could never take that away from me. — Ruta Sepetys

The books, raped and rummaged of their dignity, lay in heaps on the floor. — Ruta Sepetys

Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. God grant that we are all together again next year. — Ruta Sepetys

Shelves without books were lonely and just plain wrong. — Ruta Sepetys

They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. — Ruta Sepetys

Paint it as you see it,' he had said in his lifetime. 'Even if it's a sunny day but you see darkness and shadows. Paint it as you see it — Ruta Sepetys

The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side. — Ruta Sepetys

He wasn't ugly, but if he picked a flower, I was fairly certain it would die in his hand. — Ruta Sepetys

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

Shame is a hunter. I — Ruta Sepetys

Andrius, I'm ... scared."
He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear. — Ruta Sepetys

I watched from the raft as the beautiful deep began to swallow the massive boat of steel.
In one large gulp." Emilia p341 — Ruta Sepetys

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free. — Ruta Sepetys

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her. — Ruta Sepetys

Look at you, locked and loaded, like Mae West of the Motor City. — Ruta Sepetys

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. — Ruta Sepetys

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question? — Ruta Sepetys

But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strenght there. — Ruta Sepetys

For some reason, my hair always looked best right before bed, and what good was that? — Ruta Sepetys

God, I need that coffee. I feel like a bag of smashed assholes. — Ruta Sepetys

Decisions, they shape our destiny. — Ruta Sepetys

A woman nearby fell to her knees, sobbing. 'They say I can only choose one child for the ship. How can I choose? Please don't make me choose. — Ruta Sepetys

I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke her's last night. That girl should be in a side show, not a whorehouse. — Ruta Sepetys

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe. — Ruta Sepetys

your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced, — 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

I had said too much. He was giving me the look. I hated the look. It was the "You've had it tough, huh, kid?" look. It made me feel pathetic. — Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. — Ruta Sepetys

Can it really be so hard to die? — Ruta Sepetys

The price of success is the risk of self-esteem. — Jim Ruta

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. — Ruta Sepetys

They drink like fish and ask the most probing questions."
"Welcome to the South." Patrick laughed. — Ruta Sepetys

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands. — Ruta Sepetys

Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter. — Ruta Sepetys

A thing of beauty is a joy forever . . . it will never pass into nothingness. — Ruta Sepetys

That's a good hustle," I told him.
"We both got a little hustle, don't we?" He pulled on his jacket. "But I like to think we got more heart. — Ruta Sepetys

No Son [ ... ] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul. — Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start. — Ruta Sepetys

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea, — Ruta Sepetys

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

The recruit was screaming. Veins bulged in his neck. His mouth contorted as he summoned all of his strength to roar one, single word. Joana. — Ruta Sepetys

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. — Ruta Sepetys

I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers! — Ruta Gedmintas

Fear is a hunter. But — Ruta Sepetys

Did you ever wonder what a human life is worth? — Ruta Sepetys

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it. — Ruta Sepetys

He said nothing, just pulled me down into his lap and wrapped his arms around me. — Ruta Sepetys

They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man's suit, Mother in a dead man's wallet. — Ruta Sepetys

A wrongdoing doesn't give you the right to do wrong. You know that. — Ruta Sepetys

Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours. — Ruta Sepetys

Those memories, they are the coals that shield my heart from frost. — Ruta Sepetys