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Ground Zero QUOTES

Ground Zero QUOTES

1 " It’s "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

2 " You Americans think you can fix everything by throwing money at it,” she added. “But your friend was right. This is like the Stone Age. Because no one will let us get past the Stone Age. Not when there is nothing but war. Do you understand? The best thing you can do to help us is leave us alone. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

3 " And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living? "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

4 " We’re a team,” his dad repeated. “That’s what we’ve always said. This is how we survive, right? Together. It’s you and me against the world. But you shut me out on this one. And you let down the team. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

5 " Maybe, Reshmina thought, they wouldn’t fight at all. Maybe they would spend their time doing something else instead, like building factories and schools and hospitals. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

6 " As a boy, Pasoon had time for games and practical jokes. His only chore was to take the goats up into the mountains to graze for a few hours. As a girl, Reshmina worked from the moment she woke up until she went to sleep at night. While Pasoon had been lying in wait for her, Reshmina had been hauling water up from the river. There were also clothes to be washed, rugs to be beaten and stacked, floors to be swept, animals to be fed, food to be cooked—and, every afternoon, the two-kilometer walk back and forth to school. Pasoon didn’t even do that anymore. He’d quit going to school a year ago. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

7 " Brandon stared at the picture of himself. Dark, messy hair. Brown skin and high cheekbones, like his dad. A slightly upturned nose and blue eyes, like his mom. His name—Brandon Chavez—was printed beneath the picture, along with the date: September 11, 2001. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

8 " Moving forward was scary. Sometimes you made mistakes. Sometimes you took the wrong path. And sometimes, even when you took the right path, things could go wrong. But Reshmina realized that she wanted—needed—to keep moving forward, no matter what. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

9 " THUMP. "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

10 " wn "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero

11 " What would happen, Reshmina wondered, if the big countries stopped selling weapons to the little countries? "

― Alan Gratz , Ground Zero