"I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to …"

"Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has alread…"

"life should not be traded for gold (p87)"

"in those days, I fed my hopes of freedom in whichever way I could, without realizing that I was only hooking myself t…"

"Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches…"

"Somehow I had also convinced myself that my redemption could only come from some force outside of me-that if I were u…"

"I had been pushed further and further into a fate from which no escape or reprieve seemed possible. And so there came…"

"But, he tried to tell himself, maybe this was just a fleeting interest, maybe it would all go away."

"She had to do something for her future—today."

"A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at t…"