Laurie

“When you read about the lives of others, you form a kinship. You learn to see the world not just through your own eyes,” her papa often said. “It exercises the mind—but also, the heart.”
― Libba Bray, Under the Same Stars

“Sometimes, Liebchen, you must take a stand even if it makes you an outcast. What the Nazis are doing is wrong. They are not planting a future, they are only planting hate. And if we know that something is wrong and say nothing, do nothing? Then we are also sinning.”
― Libba Bray, Under the Same Stars

“took to the official radio, sounding angry and hateful, petty and aggrieved about one thing or another. Sophie had never heard him any other way, never seen his dead eyes light up with joy. He frightened her. Those bombastic tirades, the newspaper photos of his face splotchy with rage, a finger jabbing at the air as if it, too, were an offense, as if he had gone mad. But the very traits that upset Sophie seemed to bring other people a sense of comfort and security. “He’s a strong leader,” Fräulein Volker would say. “A real man who is unafraid of his authority. The fatherland demands a strict father to make it great again.”
― Libba Bray, Under the Same Stars

“Where you burn books, you ultimately burn people.”
― Libba Bray, Under the Same Stars