Amanda Barratt > Quotes

“Someday perhaps my story will be told, and others will remember. That to witness wrong and stay silent is as much a crime as committing evil oneself. That youth does not exempt one from responsibility. ~Sophie Scholl”
― Amanda Barratt

“If we hope for a different world, then must we not begin now to do our part to make it so? If we don't, then who will?
- The White Rose Resists”
― Amanda Barratt

“Grief is not a thing to be measured. Only lived.”
― Amanda Barratt

“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

“God waits for us with arms outstretched. It's up to us to run into them and choose to remain there, through joys and hardships alike. His is a love great enough to encompass this life and the one to come. There's a future far outlasting earth in heaven, and it is free and beautiful and without pain.”
― Amanda Barratt, The White Rose Resists: A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler

“the only gain in regretting the past lay in the present. For only the present could be altered.”
― 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

“I've been reading the Bible, and well, it has to be true. If it isn't, then there's no purpose in life at all And I've never believed that. If there's evil, there has to be good, somewhere. If there's hatred, there has to be love. If not from mortals, then surely from God. ~ Annalise”
― Amanda Barratt, The White Rose Resists: A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler

“Just as she'd feared, it did sound base, out in the open. Like a yellowed gown that one could imagine as lovely held up in a darkened room. But when the gown was brought into harsh sunlight, stains and wrinkles became glaringly visible for all to see.”
― Amanda Barratt

“Here was a creation only God could have designed."

My Heart Belongs in Niagara Falls, NY”
― Amanda Barratt

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

“The soul can shatter in silence as well as in tears.”
― 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

“From My Heart Belongs in Niagara Falls, New York; Adele's Journey:
Drew speaking; Why must there always be sorrow and poverty and heartache? I don’t know, Lord. But I’ll do all I can to trust You. I guess trust is really a choice, like Reverend Darfield says. It’s not always easy, but it’s the path we have to take, regardless of how difficult.”
― Amanda Barratt

“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

“What gives life meaning must always be preserved,”
― 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

“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

“How different he seemed now, simply a man walking beside her instead of the great pastor in the pulpit. And she, no longer the little girl relegated to playing with her brothers and sisters, could be free to converse with him on equal terms.”
― Amanda Barratt