The World That We Knew

If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

If you do not believe in evil, you are doomed to live in a world you will never understand.

That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind

Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth.

When you have lost your mother you have lost the world.

We must do as we're told," Ava reminded her. "We will honor your mother and follow her instructions." "Because she is your maker?" Lea asked, her heart breaking. Ava shook her head. "Because she is yours.

He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.

Once upon a time something happened that you never could have imagined, a spell was broken, a girl was saved, a rose grew out of a tooth buried deep in the ground, love was everywhere, and people who had been taken away continued to walk with you, in dreams and in the waking world.

The fields were rifle with clouds of Queen Anne's lace, which would make a billowy wreath. Her father had always said there people who saw Queen Anne's lace as a weed, and those who considered it a flower, and he belonged to the latter group. If you think it's beautiful it is, he had told her.

When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.

People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.

It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

Trust no one, make your own future, love with all your heart.

This is what grief was, she understood that now. It was never-ending and you carried it with you. You could not stop it or regret it, you could only keep it close to your heart.

When you have lost your mother you have lost the world. You can sit in the garden and see nothing at all, not the woman on the garden bench watching over you, not the boy who refuses to leave you, even when you tell him to go. Your grief won’t go away; it’s not a door you can close, or a book you can put back on the shelf, or a kiss you can give back once it is given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.

Did they not know that at the conference in Evian as far back as 1938, thirty-two countries in the League of Nations had voted not to help Jewish refugees fleeing Germany? Even America had refused to accept 20,000 endangered refugee children.

The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman.

It was the middle of winter, when the whole world was white, and a wolf and her and her cub had been chased as far as they could go. There was no escape,at least not for both. When the mother wolf ran to attach the hunters, all they saw were her claws and her fangs.While they shot her, the cub disappeared into the snow. That was the moment when it's coat turned from black to white so that is was forever after invisible to the hunters.

that at the conference in Evian as far back as 1938, thirty-two countries in the League of Nations had voted not to help Jewish refugees fleeing Germany? Even America had refused to accept 20,000 endangered refugee children.