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Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2) QUOTES

Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2) QUOTES

1 " By doing nothing you condone it. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

2 " We call that guilt, dear. It’s the foundation of some of our most popular religions. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

3 " Men may leave, but books will always remain true. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

4 " For if we stick to just ‘our kind’ we’ll simply exist in this insular, petty world. A world that may be safe and predictable but with the life wrung out of it. Hang on to your grudges, if you must. Stoke your fear. Call in the authorities. But I will support these good people to my dying day, and if the police drag them out of here, I swear to the Almighty, they will have to take me, too. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

5 " I marveled at how, with some people, time apart never matters. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

6 " the feeling your life is about to be enlarged, profoundly changed, with no going back. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

7 " But ‘though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.’ ” “Can you just say what you mean, Mother?” “Just remember to appreciate your own backyard. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

8 " Sadly, today authority, not truth, makes law,” Father said. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

9 " Sometimes I think husbands complicate life. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

10 " Perhaps that princess should have been more concerned about the people. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

11 " Joy’s soul lies in the doing.’  "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

12 " But too much time in the past hobbles a person. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

13 " Home was an estate named Malen Koye Nebo, “Little Heaven, "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

14 " And keep to your reading. Men may leave, but books will always remain true. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

15 " Would they kill a sweet child? "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

16 " While I breathe, I hope. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

17 " Our own twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, insisted aliens must assimilate. I quote: ‘We have room for but one language here and that is the English language. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

18 " Damnant quod non intellegunt, "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

19 " Mensheviks. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)

20 " How smart Parisians had been to remove the great stained-glass windows of the cathedral of Notre-Dame and store them for safety, replacing them with pale yellow panes. Victory flags fluttered in the harsh wind from every streetlamp and window. "

― Martha Hall Kelly , Lost Roses (Lilac Girls, #2)