Naomi Benaron Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

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#3. How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.

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#4. It is love, the teeth told him, that resurrects life from death. Leave us here. Turn your head to the living.

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#5. In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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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#8. 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.

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#9. Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

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