Ellen Marie Wiseman Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Ellen Marie Wiseman
...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
When we're together," he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
Sure, she was going to turn eighteen in less than a year. She'd been in the system long enough to know that eighteenth birthdays weren't marked by celebrations. When the checks stopped coming, she'd be on her own. "Aging out" of foster care meant becoming homeless. She'd heard stories of kids ending up in jail and hospital emergency rooms, selling drugs, living on welfare and food stamps. How desperate did a person have to become before they broke the law to survive? For now, things were good, and she didn't want to mess that up. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
she was always careful to brush and re-braid her hair, making sure the blond plaits were straight — Ellen Marie Wiseman
Christmas was an enduring milestone that came and went, while the world forever changed. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
The earth and everything on it was cast black for those last few minutes of daylight, as if evil ruled the world for that short period of time, before the stars and moon came out to illuminate the night sky and remind everyone and everything that there really was lightness and goodness in the universe, that there really was hope and heaven. — Ellen Marie Wiseman
States. According to Edwin Black, award-winning author of War — Ellen Marie Wiseman