Ruta Sepetys Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. November 19, 1967
Birthday: November 19
My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.
source: Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.109, Penguin
topic: Dream, Teacher, Art, Standoffs, Art Teacher
