But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.