“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”
― The Sandcastle Girls
― The Sandcastle Girls
“But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”
― The Sandcastle Girls
― The Sandcastle Girls
“He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.”
― The Sandcastle Girls
― The Sandcastle Girls
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
― Secrets of Eden
― Secrets of Eden
“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”
― Midwives
― Midwives
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