Natasha

“He tucked away the card, comforted by the certainty that amid all the loss and madness, his new blood brother was real.”
― Mitchell Zuckoff, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11: A gripping biography of triumph over tragedy

“Well, if you want my professional opinion, this great goddamn hole in his chest is probably what killed him.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“I’ve died a hundred times. I spend my life with corpses. I’m not afraid of you.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“Dozens of children would grow up without a mother or a father, an aunt or uncle, a grandmother or grandfather. Parents would grow old without a daughter or a son; husbands, wives, and partners would be forced to carry on alone. Grief would grip untold families, friends, colleagues, and strangers, wounded by the deaths of seventy-six passengers and eleven crew members, all murdered by five al-Qaeda hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11. The time of their deaths was 8:46:25 a.m.”
― Mitchell Zuckoff, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11: A gripping biography of triumph over tragedy