The Warsaw Sisters Quotes

“Children possess a special ability to chase joy, even in the midst of the improbable.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“I hadn’t known what it meant before, a mother’s love. Perhaps it isn’t the sort of thing you truly understand until you know it in the depths of yourself. Like breath, its force fills every part of you and gives you life. Maybe it breaks you in a way, loving like this, because it has the power to wound you like nothing else, and once touched by it, you can never return to who you once were. But it also fills you with more strength than you’ve ever known, for there are no limits to what you would give for the life in your arms.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“Ideals are rather like the bubbles in a glass of champagne. Rarely do they last longer than the first few sips.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“the only gain in regretting the past lay in the present. For only the present could be altered.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“What justification could even the most depraved mind find in the systematic slaughter of innocent human beings by the thousands?”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“The soul can shatter in silence as well as in tears.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“Grief was a blade, slicing deep, cutting your heart to shreds. With time, the blade grew dull, your heart numb. But you still bled.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“What gives life meaning must always be preserved,”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“When a man is a fanatic, he is capable of anything, and that man Hitler is one of the greatest fanatics I have ever heard.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters

“We’d been thrust together, not as neighbors or comrades or even as strangers but as human beings united by the sole desire that the next bomb find its target anywhere but the roof above our heads.”
― Amanda Barratt, The Warsaw Sisters