Ruta Sepetys said this quote

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Good men are often more practical than pretty said Mother. Andrius just happens to be both.

~ Ruta Sepetys

How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me

~ Ruta Sepetys

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

~ Ruta Sepetys