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“I knew the legends of the birds. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls.

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea