15 Quotes by Ellen Marie Wiseman

I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn’t mean that he believes in the war.

She wondered how many were like Clara, normal one minute, locked up the next. What would have happened if the patients had been asked what had happened to them instead of what was wrong with them?

These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser. But then the chancellor had become a dictator, putting himself and his followers above the, and now they were using that power to strip the Jews of their rights.

Either way, the thought of entire lives lost – family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations – because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person’s brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn’t fair.

Within minutes of setting foot on the grounds of the shuttered Willard State Asylum, seventeen-year-old Isabelle Stone knew it was a mistake.

People get mad at animals for acting like animals all the time.