The Child of Ukraine Quotes

“It could be said that loss lives within us and around us, comfortably. Like a scar, or a separation from a loved one, we don’t “survive” it, or erase it but, rather, place it permanently in a part of our daily lives that learns to accept it, and be grateful for what it teaches us: it enriches us with an attachment to a memory of someone, or something, affecting us profoundly.”
― Tetyana Denford, The Child of Ukraine

“In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, may your memory live on, live on in our hearts, through our lives, may your memory be an eternal reminder to the souls you have left behind on this earth, a reminder that God will be waiting for us… may your memory live eternally, may you find the peace that your soul has longed for.”
― Tetyana Denford, The Child of Ukraine

“That evening, they both fell asleep under night skies that were dark and quieted by snow, felled by an incredible truth: that the lost can sometimes be found again”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“The past can harm or heal, but the truth always heals a broken heart”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“In the weeks ahead, Julia would find time for quiet moments where she was alone. The pages of her life had been scattered, but she felt that someday she would find the missing ones and stitch the story back together again - there was still hope”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“When she was alone, it felt better. Important things are sometimes better accomplished alone, her mother use to say”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“The night makes years out of mere moments, and that night stretched like a dream with no end and no beginning”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“Julia. There will always be tragedy and sadness. You cannot spend time thinking about what might happen. You must make choices and sacrifices for the ones you love. It is part of life. It is part of being a woman, and a mother”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“I am not sending you away. One day, you will have children that you want to protect so much that the world becomes very small and decisions become very important”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“Russia is full of soulless people ready to kill their own mother to gain victory. They will not stop until Ukraine does not exist”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“Truth is always a necessary pain”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland

“Julia surrendered to the dark, the memory of what she'd left behind leaving a hollow pain in her chest. They were children abandoning their childhoods, at the mercy of a world they had no control over”
― Tetyana Denford, Motherland