“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”

“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.”

“One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.”

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

“Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.”

“We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.”