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“Whom the gods love die young.’)”
― Lizzie Page, When I Was Yours

“The photographs in the newspaper make me shiver. The Nazis hate everything, but mostly they hate the Jews. You can see them at their massive meetings–rallies, they call them–with their arms out in a salute and their armbands. I think they look pathetic. And he’s such a little, horrible-looking man too, that Adolf Hitler. With his stabby voice and that shabby moustache–a horrible, spoilt little emperor.”
― Lizzie Page, When I Was Yours

“London”
― Lizzie Page, When I Was Yours

“As Clara rose to her feet, she had a strange and overwhelming certainty that she was not alone. What exactly that sensation was, she didn’t know – she wasn’t a religious person – but she felt like she was immersed in a wave of acceptance. As if, while she might feel powerless, actually she was part of something much bigger than herself and all was not lost.”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“occasion,”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“I sat down with my tray opposite the other girl, Bonnie. With her wide features and eyes set far apart, Bonnie reminded me of a whale. Leona, who used to collect pictures of deep-sea monsters, would have been delighted. Bonnie was tall – about a foot taller than me – and broader even than Elizabeth. She had long muscular legs and a healthy head of hair. Despite her stature, there was something charmingly childlike about her, and although I shouldn’t have, I privately labelled Kitty the clever one and Bonnie the not so clever one. Kitty and Bonnie had trained from the moment war broke out and had been out here for three months”
― Lizzie Page, Daughters of War

“but”
― Lizzie Page, The Wartime Nursery

“Is it worth doing something if nobody knows it’s you?’ Clara mused as they left. She was thinking aloud and not expecting an answer, but Anita was smiling at her. ‘Of course it is. The sun rises every morning – and it’s beautiful whether you see it or not, isn’t it? You don’t do things for the recognition, you do it because it’s right.”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“Referring”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“inconsequential things that added up had big consequences.”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“December”
― Lizzie Page, A Child Far from Home

“He didn’t answer right away, then eventually said, ‘I think it’s because the stars don’t require anything of me. With work, with life, it’s all about fixing, mending and repairing. But with the stars, they just are – and – sometimes, that’s what I need.”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage

“again? It had only been a couple of”
― Lizzie Page, The Orphanage