Blood for Blood Quotes

“Monsters cut children open and call it progress. Monsters murder entire groups of people without blinking but get upset when they have to wash human ash from their garden strawberries. Monsters are the ones who watch other people do these things and do nothing to stop it.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Her heart kept splitting inside her. Growing and breaking, rended and rendered, reminding her that she was so, so sick of death. All it carried. All it buried.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Fear is not an excuse,” Yael told him. “Fear is being human.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Healing hurt.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“All these skills I've taught you--they're burdens. Not gifts. Taking a life takes something from me. When you choose to kill, make sure it is for the right reasons. Make sure the decision is something you can live with.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“But their roots went deep, bound them together in a collective memory. With each new arrival, they pieced together more of their past, built more of their future.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“The loss inside him kept piling—vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood For Blood

“Yael was not a monster. Luka was not the next generation of National Socialism. They were what the Reich would come to fear the most. A Jewish Girl and a German boy holding the future and the past in their hands—together.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Here was a people. A family. A faith.
Her people. Her family. Her faith.
Here was a silence broken.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Pang, pang, dummkopf heart”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“unsaid on harp string breath—as”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Don’t let your heart get in the way of your head.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“It will take time to heal. Just like all the others.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Yael wanted to be like the Valkyrie maidens in the old Norse lore. Winged women who rode to war on the backs of wolves, choosing which soldiers lived and died. She'd thought she could death mean something, if she wielded it right”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“No. Not-Adele was not Adele. She'd always ever been Yael - a girl who, when she touched his fingertips, made his heart beat a dozen times faster than it ever had in this fräulein's arms. Yael, who believed no person's life was small. Yael, who made him want to be more, but in a way that mattered.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“Don't show emotion." Kurt Löwe gave his son a rough shake, "Don't you ever show emotion. Tears are weakness. And I won't have any son of mine being weak. You're going to stand here until you top crying.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood

“They did not make her.
They would not unmake her either.
But Yael would try with that was in her - sunshine and suffering, stolen lifetimes and death at her wing tips - to destroy them.”
― Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood