The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

Hatred spreads—it doesn’t burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it.

“When the time is right, I’ll be honest about who I am—my name and my heritage, and you’ll see what I knew all along. When a man is a patient on an operating table, and there’s only one person in the room with the skills to save his life, that patient will instantly forget that he used to be a bigot.”

“War breaks us down to nothing more than our most selfish will to survive—but when we rise above that instinct, miracles can still happen.