Rhonda

“And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said.
Weren't those things the costs of war, too?”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“It was a valuable thing, he suddenly realized, to have someone you could count on for honesty.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.”
― Sara Pennypacker , Pax

“what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax