Running the Rift Quotes

“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“If we all die, who will tell the world what happened here? Who will bring justice for all these unjust deaths?”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“This cycle of hope and disappointment breaks my heart every day.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“Death and injury lay down with him at night, and when he wakes, they are there to kiss him good morning.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“...Of course there was no word in the American papers, and no one at the State Department had a clue- at least not that they shared.'...'No one back home cares about a few African children more or less in the world. It's business as usual to them.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift

“In her recent New York Times op-ed, “And the Winner Isn’t . . . ,” which addresses the failure of the fiction judges to pick a winner for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, Ann Patchett states, “Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
― Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift