Quote by Arundhati Roy

“If I had my way, the news cycle would be dedicated to the victims, not their killer.”

— Kristen Brand

“...because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And this author thinks that understanding why they died is the best and most fitting memorial we can raise for the victims. Letting their…

— Prunier, Gérard

“wasn’t it truly ironic that the sole surviving human—that’s what she felt like, after all—would be a journalist? The biggest news story ever and…

— Paul Antony Jones

“Death to the attacker was a yardstick of success, to the media person and the government, was a mere statistic. But to her, and…

— Kirthi Jayakumar

“And grief was dangerous, because people fought hard and smart to protect the living. People got themselves—and everyone around them—killed trying to avenge the…

— Kit Rocha

“It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.”

— Paul Monette

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It…

— Irina Bokova

“I would not have it understood, for a moment, that I or any of the Elders attend funerals to smother over the weaknesses of…

— Joseph F. Smith

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of…

— Sharon Kay Penman