Quotes from Deborah Ellis

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.

it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

Truth is always the most important thing, even when it leads us into dark places.

A lazy brain does no one any good.

The path you are on is one you chose for yourself

We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat.

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

Life is dangerous, but we're all brave, aren't we?

The people who hate us can't see through the wall.

Afghans love beautiful things, but we have seen so much ugliness, we sometimes forget how wonderful a thing like a flower is

The little girl's voice was thin with pain. "They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

Tanks were normal. Bombs were normal. Why couldn't eating be normal?

All girls [should read] THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis. ~ Malala Yousafzai

Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

Grownups killing each other

The world is our classroom," he always said

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

Your brain needs exercise, just like your body," he said. "A lazy brain does no one any good.

Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives.We own our thoughts, but everything else is borrowed. Everything.

Grandmother was gone. The house was gone. Green Valley was gone.