It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
Elie WieselBetter that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Elie WieselWriting is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
Elie WieselIn the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Elie Wiesel