"This rice was kept in bins behind a bamboo curtain which was also a hiding place for valuables, weapons and supplies, and little kids like me when soldiers came into our village." Chapter 1, Page 9

"Providing saviors in the form of fatherly strangers who are willing to interrupt their lives in order to help others may be the way of fate, but it is also the way of governments who wish to ensure that certain people do certain things." Chapter 2, Page 61

"A treasure-trove of government supplies - backpacks, tools, spilled cartons of rations, and bits and pieces of wrecked equipment - lay everywhere on the road, along with several crumpled bodies." Chapter 3, Page 67

"Ominously, they seemed to talk about us the way we talked about our barnyard animals on the day they ceased to be pets and began to look like supper." Chapter 3, Page 78

"Compassion flows from what you...