33 Quotes by Alan Gratz

Michael, it’s terrible to say so, but sometimes you have to weigh the cost of one man’s life against the value of an entire operation.

If no one saw them, no one could help them. And maybe the world needed to see what was really happening here.

I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you’ve become one yourself.

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

There were some horrors you couldn’t fight and couldn’t change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it – how we treat our fellow man.

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn’t so sure myself anymore.

But as she watched Lito and Papi lift up Ivan’s body, the empty place inside got bigger and bigger, until she was more empty than full.

Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.