The Soldier's Child Quotes

“I need to live just a good life, not a long one. There's a difference, you know”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Sometimes the world treats people like animals in cages, and sometimes those animals only know violence as a reaction”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“My life has truths in it that I have never shared - lies are much easier. Lies make others more comfortable, they allow others to see you as uncomplicated, easier. You are allowed to move in this world in a way that you wouldn't otherwise”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“I have seen so much. Too much, and maybe life is easier when you don't reveal the memories that your eyes have trapped inside you”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Ev walked over the little bridge and stopped, right in the middle; the middle was his favorite, because he felt like he wasn't home, and wasn't away”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Looking up, Katya's eyes adjusted to the desolate road they were on: Nothing except a flat road for miles, leading to a horizon that looked like a painting of the end of the earth, the pale crisp sky kissing the land in a kind of romantic hopelessness”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“A mother is a reflection of the future that can be; it is hope”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“The truth is sometimes so important, you have to ignore your fear”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Life can be hard, hard to learn, hard to understand - so love means you have a witness, someone who reminds you that you exist, when you forget yourself”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Children never really get over that change, do they? When they realize their parents are only human”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Nadiya, who was sharply beautiful and terrible in her demeanor, all edges and cool tones. She ruled that house, and cast a critical eye on her life like it always had a layer of dust on it that she had to clean”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child

“Losing the ones we love are sometimes the sacrifices we make to keep them alive”
― Tetyana Denford, The Soldier's Child