A View Across the Rooftops

by Suzanne Kelman

Sometimes the most courageous love is whispered in the quietest moments.”

“Isn’t wartime the most important time to fall in love? Don’t we need it more than ever?

“Careless talk costs lives.”

“One doesn’t know how brave one is until the cost outweighs the fear,”

“You may surprise yourself if the cost becomes something precious, worth fighting for.”

Isn’t it funny how things that you felt were forced upon you as a child can be of such comfort as you age?

“We have all had to do so much more than we believed we were capable of.

“But you have your strength and your great capacity to love. Only a person that loved so deeply and has been loved back like this could be as selfless as you have been with me.

On one side you were crippled by it; on the other side you were the perpetrator of it. There were no winners in this awful reality.

I am battle-worn without lifting a weapon And scarred without a cut to my flesh But still I will lift up my head. Still I will not give up the fight.

one thing that loss has taught me is that keeping a gift locked away only brings harm. It is essential to express ourselves. Walls and doors keep out not just the bad but also the good. It is our job to own the keys of our freedom, and to be able to open those doors.

‘What is life without the beauty of art or music or poetry to help us interpret it, encourage us to know how to feel, how to love and how to live?’

“Sometimes the most courageous love is whispered in the quietest moments.”