“The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.”

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

“Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.”

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”