Kensey Monckton

“What are you playing?” I asked him. “War.” “Is that a game?” “It’s the best game in the world.” “And are you winning?” “I won’t know till it’s over.” “And perhaps not even then.”
― John Boyne, All the Broken Places

“Paradise: If communism is Paradise, why do we need barriers, walls, and laws to keep people from escaping?”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“Mistrust is a form of terror. The regime pits us against one another”
― Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

“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