Anabel Shihadeh

“What I had done was nothing so extraordinary. I had simply taken [the prisoners] as human beings and not mistaken them for mechanisms to repair. I had interpreted them in the same way they had interpreted themselves all along, that is to say, as free and responsible. I had not offered them a cheap escape from guilt feelings by conceiving of them as victims of biological, psychological, or sociological conditioning processes. Nor had I taken them as helpless pawns on the battleground of id, ego, and superego.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

“Education's goal is to impart knowledge, and knowledge is not only heretical, but unpredictable and often uncomfortable.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed.  They silently passed the broken Olympic Stadium, now a graveyard without glory for the decomposing dead.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta