Katrina Nannestad Quotes

Books are treasure.

I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more.

of a haystack and we lose our trucks and seven comrades. A sniper hides in a church steeple and shoots at us. Two comrades are hit and taken

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I just don’t know what we can do. Miss McKenzie doesn’t normally let anything get her down. It’s awful to see. I asked Mum what I could do to help. She said Miss McKenzie just needs some space. ‘Time heals all, Blue,’ Mum said.

How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?

towel!’ ‘Take a break,’ suggests Colly. ‘Do some Christmas cooking. Make one yummy thing a day.’ ‘Good idea,’ says Ruby. But it’s not. She burns the Christmas cake and drops the shortbread while she’s pulling the tray out of the oven. Colly snorts at the shortbread disaster. ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures!’ She hands a teaspoon each to Ruby, Mu and me. We sit on the kitchen floor, scooping the broken bits into our mouths, laughing and spraying crumbs over each other. In the end, it’s not so much a disaster as a picnic. But when Ruby’s plum pudding escapes from its cloth and turns to mush in the pot of boiling water, she sits in the corner of the

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How do you thank someone for saving your sister?

Sorrow lingers in the air and I am confused.

At last, I say, ‘I am a happy traitor. You are a miserable hero. Who do you think made the right choice?’ ‘We’re just children,’ whispers Tomasz. ‘We shouldn’t have had to choose.

I’ve already made my choice, long, long ago. I chose to be German. There’s no going back now. It’s in the rules. Once you’ve made your choice, you have to stick with it. It’s a sensible rule, really. Otherwise, you could break your heart worrying you’ve made the wrong choice.