129 Quotes by Beatriz Williams

Annabelle is deeply asleep. It seems to him that he’ll wake her if he stays in bed – wake her with the force of loving her – so he untangles her from his arms instead and slips downstairs to make coffee, the way she likes it.

Only the rich deserve the fair.

She’s not beautiful not really only very good at looking beautiful.

Ahead, an old barn sheds paint into the grass.

When you have money and prestige – especially prestige – you think you deserve it, somehow, and everybody else is just – ordinary. Nobody else matters.

Do you know what I love most about the ocean? The way the water’s all connected. The bits and pieces have different names, but really it’s all one vast body of salt water, all the way around the earth. It’s as if we’re touching Europe, or Africa, or the Antarctic. If you close your eyes, you can feel it, like it’s right there.” Pepper.

It’s always different, isn’t it, until it turns out to be the same.

To them, it’s everything. Each identity card I create – each one you deliver – represents a unique and singular life, a person, an airman or an agent or a Jew who has another chance to survive. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever lose yourself thinking of the ones you couldn’t save. Think instead of the ones you did.

Well, that’s the thing about choices, isn’t it? There are always more to make. I’ve never seen a street where you couldn’t cross to the other side.