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“I don’t deserve anything. You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.
“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food,”
It was hard to imagine that war raged somewhere in Europe. We had a war of our own, waiting for the NKVD to choose the next victim, to throw us in the next hole.
Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.
“Even if it’s a sunny day but you see darkness and shadows. Paint it as you see it.”
A wrongdoing doesn’t give us the right to do wrong.
Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?
evil will rule until good men or women choose to act.
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
