58 Quotes by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

You can know things all you like, but that doesn’t mean you believe them.

Mam had never been anything but angry. Even when she smiled, she always stayed angry inside. No sadness, no joy. Just anger.

I was glad, you know, to read the book. To know it didn’t only happen to me.

When Jamie had to use the toilet, soldiers passed him over their heads to the one at the end of the car, and back again when he was done.

When we’d settled ourselves on the bed in Jamie’s room, he said quietly, “Mam was angry at everything too.

She was wrong.” I shrugged. “I can say that,” I said. “It’s harder to believe it.

Sometimes you’ve got a story you need to find the courage to tell.

I wanted to talk to her when she hadn’t just been hit on the head. I wanted to know if she’d still like me when she wasn’t woozy.

Potato picking was tedious, dirty, exhausting, and cold. I rather liked it.