“I wonder if my father would condemn these words if he could read them.”

“When I testified and spoke out publicly in Germany … I felt lightened. The world was finally listening.”

“The thing about the Metropolitan-American Weekend Dad is, he has a relatively brief shelf life.”

“Leaving is believing. Believing that you can come back.”

“These are the kinds of life lessons we learn as children. The nights will just keep going till you die.”

“The German was very, very nice … He paid extra special attention to my life when I wasn’t.”