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“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
“Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.”
“Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.”
“I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.”
“The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.”
“I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly”
“Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.”
“I tried to think of a singularly American superstition. I'd learned a few from the Uncles—something about not letting one's shoes touch the kitchen table—but those were all imported from the Old Wo...”
