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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