S.E. Rutledge > Quotes

“I want so many things that can never be. I want the dead to live again. I want the pain to become happiness again. I want time to turn backwards to a world that made sense. And I can only cry”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“I have to memorize every story in this book, because it is proof that, no matter how powerful evil is, kindness and love will always find a way to endure”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Men fight and die, some go home, then their sons forget the hell their fathers suffered when the next war comes”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“War will do that; it makes your bonds stronger or crushes them. We stayed strong and loyal to each other as long as we could, but... some things are too horrible for one's soul to survive. Theirs were dead before today, like mine”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Sometimes hiding in plain sight is more effective than staying in the shadows”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Of all the faces for evil to wear, innocence is by far the most terrifying”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Sometimes, I think the day our mother died was when Marie and I truly and irrevocably lost each other”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Perhaps in some ways I am still innocent, but the world has made me harden myself, and I refuse to be crushed by its depravity”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“Perhaps in some ways I am still innocent, but the world has made me harden myself, and I refuse to be crushed by its depatvity”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“God, how I wish I could do something worthwhile, something that will matter in a hundred years”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them

“As Shakespeare said, suspicion always haunts the guilty mind”
― S.E. Rutledge, The Girl Who Saved Them