“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.”

“That's why we call them belongings, because they give us a sense of belonging to something when we've left behind one life and have no compass to guide us through the next.”

“Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it...we've already left life at least halfway behind us.”

“But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.”

“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!”