“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”

“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”

“As the people of Ein Hod were marched into despossession, Moshe and his comrades guarded and looted the newly emptied village. While Dalia lay heartbroken, delirious with the loss of Ismael, Jolanta rocked David to sleep. While Hasan tended to his family's survival, Moshe sang in drunken revelry with his fellow soldiers. And while Yehya and the others moved in anguished steps away from their land, the usurpers sand "Hatikva," and shouted, "Long live Israel!”

“For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.”

“Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?”

“We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.”

“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”