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“When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you realize those parts are irreplaceable, you become lost too.”
― Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You

“She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Look,’ he said, ‘those Jews died quickly, they did not suffer as i do—though they were not as guilty as I am.”
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

“I stood up and looked in his direction, at his folded hands. Between then there seemed to rest a sunflower.
At last I made up my mind and without a word I left the room.”
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness