Aline Ohanesian Quotes

#1. art is always intense when it's transformative.

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#2. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.

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#3. It is the first time she has witnessed a murder.

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#4. Orhan fixates on the word genocide. Massacres abound in his country's history, as they do in any nation's history. But genocide is a different accusation altogether. Why do they insist on using that word?

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#5. All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.

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#6. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.

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#7. His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone.

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#8. And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life?

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#9. Silence is the enemy of justice.

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#10. if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future.

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#11. Time and progress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter.

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#12. There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart.

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#13. We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.

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#14. Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do.

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