Between Shades of Gray
A source page for quotes linked to Ruta Sepetys.
“No one's life is perfect. I find it much more interesting when people are just honest about it.”
“Mileage doesn’t make the man.”
“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.”
“What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.”
“A revolution eats its heroes.”
“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.”
“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
“Through hardship to the stars”
“We pushed to the edge of recklessness, yet I felt safe.”
“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
“Light fell, and so did my confidence.”
“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
“Hope, like oxygen, is what kept her going.”
“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
“Can history disappear if it’s written in blood?”
“...hay que hacer lo correcto, sin esperar gratitud ni recompensa alguna.”