Page 159 Quotes

“I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Hey, Peter, I say. Remember what a target is?”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.”
― Diane Ackerman

“What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands."
"Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly sensiblities. But I did not shy away from the word. How could I when it was the reality my sister lived with? " Because rape is about power; it is never about desire or love," he answered quietly. "His majesty is a powerhungry beast with a voracious hunger for more, and what better way to display that he reigns supreme than by taking what is precious to his own people?”
― June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves