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A blind German refugee traveling with Joana, Eva, the Poet, and others. Although she cannot see, Ingrid has preternatural extrasensory abilities, and is able to tell when it will snow, or when danger is approaching. She also uses these abilities to read people, and decide who is trustworthy and who is not. Because Ingrid was born blind, the Nazis see her as “undesirable.” As a result, she is at constant risk of being captured by patrolling Nazi forces and taken to a labor or a death camp. Her friends do their best to protect her, avoiding soldiers when possible, and pretending that she is not congenitally blind, but instead recovering from a treatable injury. Ingrid dies midway through the novel as the group crosses a frozen bay. She walks ahead to test the sturdiness of the ice, but falls through when Allied planes shoot through the ice, causing her to fall into the freezing water and drown.
Ingrid Quotes in Salt to the Sea
The Salt to the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Ingrid or refer to Ingrid. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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60. Florian
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It could have been so easy. I could have walked across the ice myself, without the burden of the group. They could have tried to save the blind girl. Maybe they all would have drowned in the process. That would have been so much easier.
And so much harder.
“Bitte.”
The word was s quiet, I wasn’t even sure I had heard it. I liked down at the Polish girl. She wore red lipstick. Her blonde hair was released from the captivity of her braids. She pulled her pink hat down over her eyes. “Bitte,” she whispered again. “Please.”
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Ingrid Quotes in Salt to the Sea
The Salt to the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Ingrid or refer to Ingrid. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
60. Florian
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It could have been so easy. I could have walked across the ice myself, without the burden of the group. They could have tried to save the blind girl. Maybe they all would have drowned in the process. That would have been so much easier.
And so much harder.
“Bitte.”
The word was s quiet, I wasn’t even sure I had heard it. I liked down at the Polish girl. She wore red lipstick. Her blonde hair was released from the captivity of her braids. She pulled her pink hat down over her eyes. “Bitte,” she whispered again. “Please.”
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