“Will you be all right?" she asked How could I be? Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered . I'll never… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“As for sex. Well, of course I could’ve had sex. Guys will have sex with a watermelon if they’re desperate enough. Lots of girls… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth” — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me. — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“Will you be all right?" she asked How could I be? Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me. —Ruth Mendenberg” — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
“Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die." —Ruth Mendenberg” — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
