How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Irony They were singing Christian songs. I had grown up singing some of those songs in church, and I wondered why murderers would be singing them. p5 Life Lesson She would shush me. "It doesn't matter if he smells. He's still a person. A person is a person, no matter what," she said. "You must do what you can to help people. What you do comes back around to you." p34 "Beauty is in your head, not on your body," Dad would say. p141 It's exhausting when you think that you're not entitled to your emotions. p272 For genocide unit description of school p46-47 They [parents] were determined to raise us peacefully, even though we were growing up in a conflict zone. They taught us tolerance and forgiveness. I didn't understand why the Congolese kids were mean to us. I wanted to say to them, "Don't you have parents who teach you respect?" p46-47 an attack p63-65 another attack p73 Interhamwe p86 watching Hote...