52 Quotes by Monica Hesse

Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.

But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in.

And you don't have to cry about that boy. Boys are silly. The first thing you need is a best friend.

Sometimes hope can be poisonous.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes.

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.