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1 " Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. "
― Ellen Marie Wiseman , Coal River
2 " ...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war. "
― Ellen Marie Wiseman , The Plum Tree
3 " Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws. "
― Ellen Marie Wiseman , The Orphan Collector
4 " I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war. "
5 " When we're together," he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us. "
6 " Within minutes of setting foot on the grounds of the shuttered Willard State Asylum, seventeen-year-old Isabelle Stone knew it was a mistake. "
― Ellen Marie Wiseman , What She Left Behind
7 " Then again, she didn't like small talk either, so she was glad he wasn't commenting on the weather or the landscape. Life was too big and too short and too important to talk about the lack of rain or the latest gossip. She wanted to know how people felt about themselves and one another, whether they were happy or sad. She wanted to know what made them feel loved and what hurt them to the core. She wanted to know about their past, how they got where they were, and their relationships with their mothers and fathers and siblings. She wanted to know if she was the only mixed-up person in the world who felt completely and utterly alone. "
― Ellen Marie Wiseman , The Life She Was Given
8 " She didn't want to think about unhappy things right now. And besides, thinking about her past wouldn't change her future. "
9 " Animals are innocent. People are . . . well, they’re not innocent. Animals are better than humans. "
10 " The world was full of broken people, and all the hospitals and institutions and jails could never mend their fractured hearts, wounded minds, and trampled spirits. "
11 " So you see, it all depends on which side of the fence you're looking from. "
12 " She wondered how many were like Clara, normal one minute, locked up the next. What would have happened if the patients had been asked what had happened to them instead of what was wrong with them? "
13 " People are afraid of things they don’t understand, "
14 " How could you miss something you never had? "
15 " The world was almost too much. "
16 " Hindsight is always 20/20 "
17 " People get mad at animals for acting like animals all the time. "
18 " Yet brutal actions become war crimes only if you lose.” Christine "
19 " These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser. But then the chancellor had become a dictator, putting himself and his followers above the , and now they were using that power to strip the Jews of their rights "
20 " Either way, the thought of entire lives lost—family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations—because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person’s brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn’t fair. "
