271 Quotes by Ruta Sepetys

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land.

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Mileage doesn’t make the man.