Naomi Benaron quotes
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“Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
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“When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
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“I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.”
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“I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. Jenuary 3, 2012.
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“Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications
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“Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.280, Oneworld Publications
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“I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.”
-- Naomi BenaronSource : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
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“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation
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“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”
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Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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