151 Quotes About Ww2
- Author Jennifer Ryan
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Grief feels a lot like fear. We’re afraid of it taking us over. But we owe it to ourselves, to those we have lost, to let grief in. Only then can we start to remember them with a cheer in our heart, a cheer for them and all that they were.
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- Author Corinne Beenfield
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I could never do anything that would add to your pain.”With that, he leaned over and placed a kiss on her forehead, soft and sad as moonlight. Helen’s eyelids fluttered down as she relished it, wishing it could last, praying the next moment wouldn’t come. But of course, it did.Pulling back, Stuart looked in Helen’s eyes, perhaps for the last time. “I’ll write.
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- Author John Owen Theobald
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If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.
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- Author David Benioff
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I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
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- Author Jennifer Ryan
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Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.
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- Author Jennifer Ryan
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She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.
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- Author Randall Wallace
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It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
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- Author Denis Avey
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The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.
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- Author Anthony Doerr
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A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?
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