97 Quotes by Helen Dunmore

"I suppose it’s easier to kill people if you can pretend to yourself that they’re not really people at all."

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"For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister."

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"It’s not evil that separates Earth and Ingo; it’s difference. But there are plenty who want to make evil out of difference."

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"I’ve known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible."

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"Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue."

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"Is my mind closed? No. It’s wide open. I’m always waiting."

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"Scars don’t matter, little one. They are the marks of the battles we have won."

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"When you are young you don’t always realise how full of doubts everybody is."

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"I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."

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"I think that everything that happens to you stays in you, even if it stays in a part of your mind where you can’t find it. That’s why you should never try to forget when people urge you to."

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