Sumera

“Life doesn't work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads - it doesn't burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“I can't wait to tell him how much of a revelation it has been to do something like this - standing on a mountaintop for no reason other than the sake of the experience. This moment is an investment in myself. I'm giving myself permission to make a memory that benefits no one but me. I love being a mother, and I love being a wife. I even love being a daughter and a granddaughter. But as I stand here on the mountaintop, I'm not any of those things. I am simply Alice, and for one breathtaking moment, I'm completely present.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive—but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“I knew with absolute certainty that small problems in a country can become immense tragedies when left unchecked. It started small in Germany. It even started small in Poland, long before the occupation. It started with a small group of people harassing and vandalizing and desecrating, and it ended with trainloads of my countrymen shipped to furnaces and dumped into a river. I”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say