Carol Matas Quotes

#1. (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you?
- Ruth Mendenberg

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#2. I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one.
- Ruth

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#3. I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
- Ruth Mendenberg

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#4. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all?
- Rivka

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#5. Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die.
- Ruth Mendenberg

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#6. As for sex. Well, of course I could've had sex. Guys will have sex with a watermelon if they're desperate enough. Lots of girls try to prove their love by having sex. It only proves they're having sex.

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#7. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg

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#8. Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.

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#9. (S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop.
- Ruth

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