T.C. Avey Quotes

“But they promised us everyone would return someday…when it was safe.” Her voice cracked at the end.“You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say.” Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound.”

“But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his misgivings about what he had done.”

“She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.”

“A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body”

“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.”

“Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.”

“Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.”

“You cannot deny the struggle”

“Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live.”

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”