“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”

“I wipe away tears. All these years I assumed that my dad was dead, but hearing this story makes the pain feel fresh again. "How did you keep going?"Because as long as you were alive, there was hope. That's all people need in order to do amazing things, Alenna. Hope is the great human motivator. It always has been.”

“What I see are human bodies.”

“So this is the bogeyman.”

“Those two don’t like anyone except each other. Canadians are weird.”

“Imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“There should be more to love," said the earth, "than 'it did not kill me.' More than 'I survived it.”