The Emerald Horizon (The Star and the Shamrock #2)

by Jean Grainger

it struck her how no matter what carnage and destruction abounded, the sun rose and set every single day. Flowers bloomed in the park – not the beautifully manicured beds of the life before Hitler, but still some remained and popped their brightly coloured heads up. Nature didn’t care what stupid messes humans got themselves into; it just carried on regardless.

the best way to support someone who is grieving is just to be there. To not try to make it better or explain it away, but just to be there and let them cry, let them endure the pain. Just be beside them so they know they are not alone.’

‘We are all a mixture of everything – good and bad, brave and cowardly, kind and hateful. No one nation or people has a monopoly on anything. So yes, I know not all Russians are like the ones that killed my friend. Germans have hurt me, exiled my children, but it was also Germans who hid me, who gave me food. So I don’t judge people by their nationality, only by their actions.’