Strength in What Remains Quotes

“... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength In What Remains

“In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength In What Remains

“I stared at the faces of the dead students. “You know, Zacharie, just looking at them, I can’t tell you which ones were Tutsis, which Hutus.” “Exactly!” said Deo in a loud whisper. Evidently, one was supposed to whisper here. “And neither could the killers!” “The killers couldn’t see the difference, too,” whispered Zacharie. “So they ask. Because they can’t tell. We are the same people.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“Infections and Inequalities”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“When too much is too much or too bad is too bad, we laugh as if it was too good.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“One shouldn't expect anyone to be complete at any given moment.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“Love work, and keep doing more. Don’t wait for your parents to lie to you and tell you they have money buried.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness