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Number the Stars

“And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.”

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“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after”

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“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”

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“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

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“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

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“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.”

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