32 Quotes by Deborah Ellis

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking.She will follow the moon.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

We have to remember this,” Parvana said. “When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat.

to the children we force to be braver than they should have to be.

Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

Life is dangerous, but we’re all brave, aren’t we?

Grownups shouldn’t turn their backs on children.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives.We own our thoughts, but everything else is borrowed. Everything.

They were going to turn her into a boy.