70 Quotes by Ryan Graudin

It doesn’t matter that she’s holding those keys. None of them lets her outside.

The world is a large place and time is even larger.

So she traced and she named. She hurt and she raged. She remembered.

Her heart kept splitting inside her. Growing and breaking, rended and rendered, reminding her that she was so, so sick of death. All it carried. All it buried.

A different voice slid through the speakers now – his voice. The one that raised armies, toppled kingdoms. The one that sent the entire stadium into a hush. Even the raindrops hung back in the sky; the air cleared into a spitting drizzle.” p65.

Yael was not a monster. Luka was not the next generation of National Socialism. They were what the Reich would come to fear the most. A Jewish Girl and a German boy holding the future and the past in their hands – together.

The world is wrong. I’m just doing my part to fix it.

It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I’ve fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

Pang, pang, dummkopf heart.