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“Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.”
“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”
“The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.”
“Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. Youre going to die when youre supposed to die.”
“Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. “You’re going to die when you’re supposed to die.”
“The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.”
“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to...”
“He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moan...”
“Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-w...”
“As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. He tried to sit up, Martz said. I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was ...”
“But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or ...”
“As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up,” Martz said. “I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help w...”
