"Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips."
- Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin
"He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power."
"VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers."
"We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me."