58 Quotes by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

You can know things all you like, and someday you might believe them.

But now, thinking back, it seemed a little silly to be unhappy about a dress when the pilots were dead. If I had it to do over, I would at least have learned their names.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

Lady Thorton never went to boarding school. She seems to imagine it as a sort of jolly holiday.” Susan had gone to boarding school. “Was it?” “No,” Susan said. “Mind you, I didn’t hate it. But sometimes being in a group of girls is just as lonely as being alone.

But what do I do with them?” Miss Smith said “I’ve never been around children.” “Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep,” the doctor said. “They’re no more diffi cult than puppies, really.” He grinned.

I didn’t know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent.

I shrugged. “There’s a war on.” “Yes,” she said, “and you’re winning it.

And even if it felt like Mam hated me, she had to love me, didn’t she? She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war.