“Was there any human urge more pitiful, or more intense, than wanting another chance at something?”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I know I cannot.”— Elie Wiesel, nydailynews.com
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. It is…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women a…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”— Elie Wiesel, eliewieselfoundation.org
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.com
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.com