“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated”

“It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.”

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”

“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”

“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

“Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!”

“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”