“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
― Girl in the Blue Coat
― Girl in the Blue Coat
“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“Sometimes hope can be poisonous.”
― Girl in the Blue Coat
― Girl in the Blue Coat
“I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.”
― Girl in the Blue Coat
― Girl in the Blue Coat
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