"They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition…"

"He felt a sudden pressure, and then splinters and pieces of board and fragments of tile fell on him. He heard no roar…"

"At the terminus, he caught a streetcar at once. (He later calculated that if he had taken his customary train that mo…"

"They could not move a bit under such a heavy fence and then smoke entered into even a crack and choked their breath. …"

"It would be impossible to say what horrors were embedded in the minds of the children who lived through the day of th…"

"Dr. Sasaki, who had himself suffered nothing but this last, paid little or no attention to any of these revelations. …"

"Sister Sasaki made a speech: "I shall not dwell on the past. It is as if I had been given a spare life when I survive…"

"[Hiroshima has become] part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust."

"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"