“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
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Ruta Sepetys (Rūta Šepetys) is an internationally acclaimed author of historical fiction published in over fifty countries and thirty-six languages. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide. Her novels, Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy are both New York Times bestsellers and international bestsellers. Her latest novel, Salt to the Sea, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Her books have won or been shortlisted for over forty book prizes, are included on over twenty state reading lists, and are currently in development for film and television. Ruta is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Born in Michigan, she was raised in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Ruta attended college to study opera but instead graduated with a degree in International Finance. Prior to publishing her first novel, she spent twenty years in the music industry helping artists and songwriters distill story through song. Sepetys is the first American crossover novelist to address both European Parliament and Library of Congress. She was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation’s prestigious Bellagio Resident Fellowship for Salt to the Sea. Ruta was recently bestowed the Cross of the Knight of the Order by the President of Lithuania for her contributions to education and memory preservation. She is intensely proud to be Lithuanian, even if that means she has a name no one can pronounce. Ruta lives in a treehouse in the hills of Tennessee. Source: http://rutasepetys.com/about/
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“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
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“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
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“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
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“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
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“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
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“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myse...”
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“... I’m not running around blaming anybody. I’m doing the work. Which is what, exactly? Letting it hurt.”
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“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Wou...”
“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
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“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.”
“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”
“Mileage doesn’t make the man.”
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“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
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“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
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“I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on...”
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“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels...”
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