I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Paradise: If communism is Paradise, why do we need barriers, walls, and laws to keep people from escaping?”
“How could we expect others to feel our pain or hear our cries for help when all we could do was whisper?”
“Good luck comes at a price. Bad luck is free.”
“An old woman is fast asleep when she hears a knock at the door.Who is it? she whispers, terrified.It is death, the voice answers.Oh, good. I thought it might be the Securitate.”
“As the saying goes, better to die standing than live kneeling.”
“Trading Kents for the lives of children. And he said it without hesitation, without the pain and shameful truth it carried—that the guards cared more about nicotine than humans.”
“Sorrow. Anger. An expanse of emptiness that takes form as a separate entity living inside of you. It digs, takes root, and dwells there. And somehow, you know that even if it worms its way out, there will be no relief. If it leaves, there will be nothing left but charred remains, like the inside of a house torched by fire.”
“Do you hear me? Reciting jokes Laughing to hide the tears of truth That we are denied the present With empty promises Of an emptier future.”
“But I was not going to have a breakdown. I was going to take them all down.”
“Will YOU REMEMBER ME? A boy with wings of hope. Strapped to his back. That never had a chance to open, denied Fforever knowing, What he could have become. What we all could have become.”
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