Emily

“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.”
― 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

“Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea