Salt To The Sea Quotes

Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.'I'm a murderer.

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

We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.

But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.