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“What good is a story that can never be told?”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“I turn in a slow circle.
The sky is blue, but the city is the color of war.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Bletchley Riddle

“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“There are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy