"My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves."

-- Chris Bohjalian

#Grandparent Quotes #Survivor Quotes #Stories Quotes

“What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.51, LUNA
“To remember everything is a form of madness.”

Source : Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.215, Peter Lang
“I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.”
“We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.”
“If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.”
“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
“I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.”

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