“It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.” — Leslie Lee Sanders Copy Share Image
“Whoever survived cruel situations, finds the strength of obedient faith.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anyone. Mark Twain” — David Nelson Copy Share Image
“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing.… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I hate crickets,” he said. “Yes,” she replied. “Crickets are like cilantro. You either love ‘em or hate ‘em." “Did you just… — Alyssa Hall Copy Share Image
This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“We had seen too many horrors already, and we could see and hear more explosions all around us as the war continued,… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I thought of the people on the roof and wondered how they managed to stay up there as there was nothing to… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal.” The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it… — Teresa Tsalaky Copy Share Image
“I’m haunted. We all are, I guess. We’re parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of… — Jason S. Hornsby Copy Share Image
“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Tony felt like the luckiest kid alive, with his new used winter coat. He realized then that people with nothing are grateful… — Paige Dearth Copy Share Image
“Later, I started to understand just why these children ‘hated’ us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“But the public did not know the truth about what happened to the people in the trucks; they believed the stories from… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I felt so much more than horror. I was so afraid, shocked by what I saw. There were hundreds of men, women… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“After the Christmas and New Year of 1944 my mother and I returned to Strausberg, but the area was full of people… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“With our collective shock, what we saw seemed to be frozen into a state of suspended animation. Indelibly etched into our memories… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Watch the official trailer for Climbing Back: From Coma to Calling—a true story of survival, faith, and purpose. Journey with Helen Ify… — Helen Ify Konoma Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Current interventions in use with children include psycho-pharmacological treatments, play therapy, psychological debriefing and testimony therapy, but this was Nazi Germany in 1945!” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this world. The real crunch comes in… — Lynelle Clark Copy Share Image
“The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive;… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
