Top 100 Quotes About Ruta
#1. 'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.
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#2. your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,
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#3. There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' But the children. That's what I struggle with.' He shook his head. 'Why the children?
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#4. Some things just won't go away, no matter how hard you scrub.
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#5. My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.
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#6. Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. God grant that we are all together again next year.
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#7. Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death.
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#9. Mother wrapped her arms around Jonas, kissing his hair.
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#10. Willie appeared completely calm about the news of Mother. She always said she could make tea in a tornado.
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#11. Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.
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#12. We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe.
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#13. That was something the war couldn't take from me either. The Nazis couldn't stop the wind and the snow. The Russians couldn't take the sun or the stars. I
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#14. I'm definitely an advocate of the classic always taking your make-up off at night and always moisturising. I'll have a go at anyone that tells me they don't moisturise!
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#15. I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.
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#16. A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.
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#17. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was
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#18. Paint it as you see it,' he had said in his lifetime. 'Even if it's a sunny day but you see darkness and shadows. Paint it as you see it
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#19. 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.
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#21. How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me
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#22. What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?
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#23. You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that'll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make 'em real.
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#24. Better that he gets used to it,' he said.
Used to what, the feeling of uncontrolled anger? Or a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket?
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#25. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be taken by anybody else, these pages must be shown.
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#26. You see, fear is a hunter. It encircles us when we are unarmed and least expect it. And then we are forced to make decisions.
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#27. That's a good hustle," I told him.
"We both got a little hustle, don't we?" He pulled on his jacket. "But I like to think we got more heart.
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#28. A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon.
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#29. There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.
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#31. Evil will rule until good men or women choose to act.
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#32. It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
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#33. What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer?
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#34. More than ten thousand people had been on board the Gustloff. The gruesome details of the sinking would be reported in every world newspaper. The tragedy would be studied for years, become legendary.
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#35. My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.
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#36. I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.
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#37. What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked.
"Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.
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#38. They drink like fish and ask the most probing questions."
"Welcome to the South." Patrick laughed.
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#39. Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture. It's all the fault of the Communists.
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#40. That doesn't make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into.
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#41. We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.
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#42. He said nothing, just pulled me down into his lap and wrapped his arms around me.
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#43. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.
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#44. Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie.
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#45. Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.
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#47. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, you don't know how to dance, do you, Josephine? I didn't know how to dance. I didn't want anything to do with his biscuit.
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#48. But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said.
"We know us," said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?
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#49. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
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#50. I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.
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#51. I had said too much. He was giving me the look. I hated the look. It was the "You've had it tough, huh, kid?" look. It made me feel pathetic.
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#52. He wasn't ugly, but if he picked a flower, I was fairly certain it would die in his hand.
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#53. Everyone has a price," she said.
"But clearly not everyone has a soul,
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#54. Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.
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#55. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart.
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#56. It was hard to imagine that war raged somewhere in Europe. We had a war of our own, waiting for the NKVD to choose the next victim, to throw us in the next hole.
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#57. I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
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#58. That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture.
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#59. Enough studying, Joana. Sometimes living life is more instructive than studying it.
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#60. It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said.
Safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.
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#61. Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.
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#62. We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.
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#63. Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.
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#64. Andrius, I'm ... scared."
He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.
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#65. I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!
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#66. One wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.
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#67. War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.
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#68. I leapt eagerly into books. The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
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#69. We were not Germanizable. But our soil was." Emilia p11
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#70. They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.
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#71. You love stories, Emilia. Well, the trees hold hundreds of years of stories. Think of it, everything these trees have seen and felt. All of the secrets are inside of them.
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#72. Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The
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#73. I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.
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#74. Abandoned or separated from their families, they were forced to battle the beast of war on their own, left with an inheritance of heartache and resposibility for events they had no rile in causing.
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#75. I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
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#76. The old man nodded. "There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' We all have a door that waits. I know that. I accept it. But the children. That's what I struggle with.
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#77. I looked back to the hole. What if we were digging our own grave?
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#78. Jesse motioned to my hair. "Looks like you've been in the bath yourself." He settled into a chair on the front porch.
"I had just washed my hair, but then I had to go shoot someone. Do you want a cold drink?
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#79. Do you see, my dear? The proverbs are at play. 'I wept because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.'" I
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#80. Thieves and prostitutes. Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby - thieves and prostitutes.
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#81. Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I
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#82. You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet.
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#83. You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
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#84. I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke her's last night. That girl should be in a side show, not a whorehouse.
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#85. Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.
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#86. Massachusetts has no idea what's coming for them. I bet you'll be the first Mae West they've ever had.
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#87. The German stared at me, a combination of fatigue and frustration. But I understood.
His eyes on the potato said, Emilia, I'm hungry.
The dried blood on his shirt said, Emilia, I'm injured.
But the way he clutched his pack told me the most.
Emilia, don't touch this.
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#89. The recruit was screaming. Veins bulged in his neck. His mouth contorted as he summoned all of his strength to roar one, single word. Joana.
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#90. A thing of beauty is a joy forever . . . it will never pass into nothingness.
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#91. Be in control of your piece, Jo. The minute it takes control of you, you're dead, Willie would tell me.
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#92. Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.
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#93. The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.
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#94. War had rearranged my priorities. I now clung to memories more than goals or material things. But there were a few irreplaceable items that buoyed my spirit and fight for life. It was at that moment that I realized. Something was missing from my suitcase.
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#95. It's crazy, but it's just money. There's lots of ways to get money,
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#96. Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.
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#97. A wrongdoing doesn't give you the right to do wrong. You know that.
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#98. He wrapped his arms around me and planted a kiss straight on my lips, hard and long. It felt like I was watching the kiss instead of being inside of it.
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#99. He opened his eyes and whispered to me. "Kind of incredible. She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country." He kissed her head and leaned down to whisper in my ear.
"She is Poland.
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#100. She held her breath in one hand and her suitcase in the other.
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