“ Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church. Ann Rinaldi
“ He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made e… Ann Rinaldi
“ My heart stopped beating, I know it did. Hearts do that sometimes, for just a beat or two. Then they start up again. But they never regain those missed beats, and nothing is ever the same afterwards.… Ann Rinaldi
“ Because that’s how intelligent people conduct themselves. They allow for each other’s differences. Ann Rinaldi
“ I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Ann Rinaldi
“ He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband. Ann Rinaldi
“ There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of ev… Ann Rinaldi
“ You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird. Ann Rinaldi
“ I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his o… Ann Rinaldi
“ You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He… Ann Rinaldi
“ When a woman's face is wrinkledAnd her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday!Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay;Remember, Lasses, remember.And while the sun shines make hay:You must not expe… Ann Rinaldi
“ What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but ar… Ann Rinaldi
“ War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. Ann Rinaldi
“ Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you. Ann Rinaldi
