Quotes by : Ruta Sepetys

What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.

Every nation has hidden history, countless stories preserved only by those who experienced them. Stories....

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never....

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill....

What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective....

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem....

You stand for what is right, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and....

In 1991, after fifty years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence,....

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his....