“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
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Salt to the Sea is a 2016 historical fiction young adult novel by Ruta Sepetys. It tells the story of four individuals in World War II who make their way to the ill-fated MV Wilhelm Gustloff. The story also touches on the disappearance of the Amber Room, a world-famous, ornately decorated chamber stolen by the Nazis that has never been recovered. Sepetys was awarded the 2017 Carnegie Medal, the UK's most prestigious children's book award, for Salt to the Sea.
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“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”
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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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“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”
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“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
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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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“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
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