"I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you...."
P519

"'You're from Africa, right?' I nod. 'All right then. That means we're brothers.' I am unwilling to agree."
P9

"I suppose there is little in the way of violence that I have not seen in Sudan, in Kenya. I spent years in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, and there I watched two young boys, perhaps twelve years old, fighting so viciously over rations that one kicked the other to death."
p13

"—You didn't tell us the answer: What is the What? My father shrugged.
—We don't know. No one knows."
p64

"They started...