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Girl in the Blue Coat

Monica Hesse

Top 10 Best Quotes

“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”

“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”

“Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.”

“When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace?”

“Sometimes hope can be poisonous.”

“I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.”

“Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.”

“Isn't love the opposite of rational?”

“Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.”

“let go of a friend I’ll still miss every day. I’ll go back to work. I’ll get better. I’ll get better slowly. I’ll find all the secret, hidden things.”

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Book Keywords:

loss, world-war-ii, friendship, death, love, ya, healing, hope, life, war, death-and-dying, historical-fiction, betrayal

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