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Source: The Girl with the List

“I just can’t see a future, and I believe that might mean it’s because this is all it will be.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“If you had a secret - one that could destroy your life if shared, what would you do to protect it?”

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Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

Source: The Nurse Behind the Gates

“There’s no clearer definition of war than the sight of barbed wired fences surrounding dark fields muddied by the sky’s tears.”

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Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

Source: The Nurse Behind the Gates

“Whenever you feel like the world is against you, start counting your breaths. One breath every five seconds will show anyone who is watching that you haven’t a worry in the world.”

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Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

Source: The Nurse Behind the Gates

“The empty seats belong to the other Jewish kids who were in my class. I’m the only one left.”

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Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

Source: The Nurse Behind the Gates

“You’re right to fight for everything you believe in, and I’ll do “the same, but only until it is too dangerous. I won’t risk our lives for a fight we won’t win.”

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Book:The Nurse Behind the Gates

Source: The Nurse Behind the Gates

“No one warned me there would eventually be a last tick.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“Nothing is what it was, and this town is no longer a part of who we are.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“Living in this nightmare leads nowhere, and I can only continue walking through the tundra of bone-chilling winds, through the snow, toward the endless wall of clouds for so many days in a row before I feel the need to fall to my knees and beg for forgiveness.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“Your life is not dependent upon anyone else’s. You don’t know what the future holds—none of us do, but I believe it holds more than what we are experiencing now. Hold on, dear. Just hold on. Please.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

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“How is beauty ever to be seen through a tarnished lens?”

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Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“I can’t understand why so many of them seem to be in one place at the same time, but I wonder if a man’s final thought is that they don’t want to be alone when they take their last breath.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

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“It’s easier to dream of a future where we are not in a war.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“Whispers in the dark were something of a nightmare years ago. Today, it’s the only form of communication we have inside these walls.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

Source: The Doctor's Daughter

“I knew there would come a morning when I would wake up differently than I had become used to, or there would be a night I never fell asleep.”

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Book:The Doctor's Daughter

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“Our bodies sway together like an airtight package of greased flesh—side to side and front to back with the waver of every curve the train takes.”

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Author:Shari J. Ryan

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