“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,
The Plum Tree
“When we're together," he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
“Within minutes of setting foot on the grounds of the shuttered Willard State Asylum, seventeen-year-old Isabelle Stone knew it was a mistake.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“She didn't want to think about unhappy things right now. And besides, thinking about her past wouldn't change her future.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“Then again, she didn't like small talk either, so she was glad he wasn't commenting on the weather or the landscape. Life was too big and too short and too important to talk about the lack of rain or the latest gossip. She wanted to know how people felt about themselves and one another, whether they were happy or sad. She wanted to know what made them feel loved and what hurt them to the core. She wanted to know about their past, how they got where they were, and their relationships with their mothers and fathers and siblings. She wanted to know if she was the only mixed-up person in the world who felt completely and utterly alone.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“So you see, it all depends on which side of the fence you're looking from.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“The world was full of broken people, and all the hospitals and institutions and jails could never mend their fractured hearts, wounded minds, and trampled spirits.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“Animals are innocent. People are . . . well, they’re not innocent. Animals are better than humans.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“How could you miss something you never had?” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“She wondered how many were like Clara, normal one minute, locked up the next. What would have happened if the patients had been asked what had happened to them instead of what was wrong with them?” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“People get mad at animals for acting like animals all the time.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“You can’t punish a mother for acting like a mother, or an animal for acting like an animal.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“It was just easier to believe in the boogeyman than to acknowledge that there were so many evil people in the world.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
“People are afraid of things they don’t understand,” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River
“The world was almost too much.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“Hindsight is always 20/20” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River
“Yet brutal actions become war crimes only if you lose.” Christine” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
“These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser. But then the chancellor had become a dictator, putting himself and his followers above the , and now they were using that power to strip the Jews of their rights” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
“When we're together," he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
“Within minutes of setting foot on the grounds of the shuttered Willard State Asylum, seventeen-year-old Isabelle Stone knew it was a mistake.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“She didn't want to think about unhappy things right now. And besides, thinking about her past wouldn't change her future.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“Then again, she didn't like small talk either, so she was glad he wasn't commenting on the weather or the landscape. Life was too big and too short and too important to talk about the lack of rain or the latest gossip. She wanted to know how people felt about themselves and one another, whether they were happy or sad. She wanted to know what made them feel loved and what hurt them to the core. She wanted to know about their past, how they got where they were, and their relationships with their mothers and fathers and siblings. She wanted to know if she was the only mixed-up person in the world who felt completely and utterly alone.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“So you see, it all depends on which side of the fence you're looking from.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“The world was full of broken people, and all the hospitals and institutions and jails could never mend their fractured hearts, wounded minds, and trampled spirits.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“Animals are innocent. People are . . . well, they’re not innocent. Animals are better than humans.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“How could you miss something you never had?” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“She wondered how many were like Clara, normal one minute, locked up the next. What would have happened if the patients had been asked what had happened to them instead of what was wrong with them?” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“People get mad at animals for acting like animals all the time.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“You can’t punish a mother for acting like a mother, or an animal for acting like an animal.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“It was just easier to believe in the boogeyman than to acknowledge that there were so many evil people in the world.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
“People are afraid of things they don’t understand,” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River
“The world was almost too much.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women
“Hindsight is always 20/20” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, What She Left Behind
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, Coal River
“Yet brutal actions become war crimes only if you lose.” Christine” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
“These men wanted Hitler in a position to put an end to the Republic and to return Germany to the days of the Kaiser. But then the chancellor had become a dictator, putting himself and his followers above the , and now they were using that power to strip the Jews of their rights” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
