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Girl in the Blue Coat QUOTES

Girl in the Blue Coat QUOTES

1 " Girls in love will do desperate and creative things. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

2 " I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I 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. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

3 " 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. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

4 " But when it comes down to it, we all die alone. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

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

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

6 " I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

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

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

8 " Sometimes hope can be poisonous. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

9 " 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? "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

10 " 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. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

11 " Isn't love the opposite of rational? "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

12 " 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. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

13 " Here is the thing about my grief: It’s like a very messy room in a house where the electricity has gone out. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

14 " Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own home city. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

15 " We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn’t know. We didn’t mean it. It wasn’t our fault. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

16 " Maybe we can’t barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

17 " And you don't have to cry about that boy. Boys are silly. The first thing you need is a best friend. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

18 " Fear. That’s right. That was the odor I couldn’t place before. That’s the smell of my beautiful, breaking country. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

19 " But I suppose love doesn't stop, even in wars. There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in. "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat

20 " We need girls who are pretty so the soldiers don’t notice that they’re also smart and brave and working against them "

― Monica Hesse , Girl in the Blue Coat