“When you know, you know,” Nate had said. I didn’t even know what love was supposed to feel like.
“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“I wish I could have a cupcake,”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“and I want you all to remember—that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of—something he can work and fight for.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”
― Number the Stars
― Number the Stars
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