The Words I Never Wrote Quotes

“She had the sudden vivid realization that each choice, each split-second decision she had made until that moment, was what had made her life. She had shaped her life daily, the way a painter chooses pigments and lays down one brushstroke after another on the canvas. Whether she would die here, at the hands of the Russians, or be cut down in a senseless attempt to escape, she was comforted. She had, at least, been the artist of her own existence.”
― Jane Thynne, The Words I Never Wrote