Dominque Cuzick

“Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin to study the individual deaths would consume a hundred lifetimes. Which is why one of our deepest instincts can be simply to record names – individual lives, equally specific, equally valuable – never emphasizing one for fear of disrespecting another: listing them, as it were on a single stone wall – and steering away from blame or analysis.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

“Colton, what do you want people to know from your story?" Without hesitation, he looked her in the eye and said, "I want them to know that heaven is for real.”
― Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

“But in some ways he didn't survive.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

“How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast