Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.