Laura Hillenbrand Broken Quotations

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.