“There is something almost rebellious in the man's posture, as though once faced with the inevitability of death, he decided to get on with it.”— Tom Junod, esquire.com
“Had Rick heard and felt the beginning of the building’s collapse? Had he known what was coming? These thoughts kept her awake, night after night.”— James B. Stewart, newyorker.com
“Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it with a bunch of tourists from Denmark.”— Steve Kandell, buzzfeednews.com
“The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center... Now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of... of American ingenuity and strength.... and labor and imagination and commerce and it's gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty... the view from the south of Manhattan is…”— Jon Stewart, gothamist.com
“We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all. Due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the…”— Osama bin Laden, edition.cnn.com
“Here is America struck by God Almighty in one of its vital organs, so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. Grace and gratitude to God. America has been filled with horror from north to south and east to west, and thanks be to God. What America is tasting now is only a copy of we have tasted. O…”— Osama bin Laden, nytimes.com