Ruta Sepetys

"Mother was comfort. Mother was home."

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"Mother is comfort. Mother is home."

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""Mother was comfort. Mother was home.""

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"How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky."

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"Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land."

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