The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

When things got really bad I could go away inside my head. I’d always known how to do it. I could be anywhere, on my chair or in the cabinet, and I wouldn’t be able to see anything or hear anything or even feel anything. I would just be gone.

You mustn’t listen to people who don’t know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.”

“If you have to tell lies, or you think you have to, to keep yourself safe—I don’t think that makes you a liar. Liars tell lies when they don’t need to, to make themselves look special or important.

“I don’t know what to say,” she said, after a pause. “I don’t want to tell you a lie, and I don’t know the truth.” It was maybe the most honest thing anyone had ever said to me.