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" His face I was hitting, His nose I was blooding, His hearts I was breaking." ( Bagdasarian 76)

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"I tried to stand, but I couldn't. My legs were numb and my knees so stiff that I could not unbend them even an inch without pain. Slowly, very slowly, I made it to my feet, my legs actually wobbling with effort, and watched the soldiers pull the other prisoners to their feet until only the dead were left lying on the floor."(Bagdasarian 41).

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"I was home. But, of course, it wasn't really home anymore. It was just another dead body, another deserted street" (Bagdasarian 112).

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"And now the night that had seemed so dark was not dark enough..." (Bagdasarian 63)

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"What did I have to fear? By the time I hear the shots, I would be dead; by the time I felt the sword, I would be with my family again" (Bagdasarian 93).

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"And then I heard the crack of a whip and a cry that did not sound human, someone had fallen or someone had fainted, but I did not look back, all i could do was walk and keep walking"(Bagdassarian 43).

"He did not look like Sisak, he looked like the dead I had seen on the road and the dying I had seen at the inn". (Bagdassarian 88)

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"I did not know when I opened my eyes the next morning that it was the last day of my childhood. The day seemed no more ominous than the one before; my heart no heavier, my fears no greater. As I walked down the stairs to the kitchen, I had no premonition that my family and I were about to share our last meal together"
(Bagdasarian 23).

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Looking into the room, I saw only darkness at first. Then I heard a sound and a part of the floor moved, and I realized it was a floor of bodies." (Bagdasarian 33)

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"Looking into the room, I saw only darkness at first. Then I heard a sound and a part of the floor moved, and I realized it was a floor of bodies" (Bagdassari 33).

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" 'If you think you know an object,'  he said 'move three steps forward or back, or to the right or to the left, and you will see that you do not know it as well as you think' " ( Bagdasarian 77).
" 'I ran the wrong way, too,' he whispered.'" ( Bagdasarian 90).

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"I closed my eyes and sucked the blood from my cracked lips as though it were water. My head fell forward, and I felt myself begin to slip away." (Bagdasarian 46)

"'Don't be afraid'  the man said in Turkish. 'I won't hurt you.' His beard was black, his dirt-stained clothes hung from his body as though he were made of sticks." (Bagdasarian 59)

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"If there is any trouble," he said, "take the poison and it will all be over." No one asked him what kind of trouble could be worse than death. They all seemed to know. (Bagdasarian 23)
For the first time in my life, I was hungry and there was no food, I was thirsty and there was no water. I knew then as I had not known before that the room was real and that my home and my room and my bed had been a dream. (Bagdasarian 22)

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" My grandmother would have told me that it was man, not God, who made the misery in the world and that it was only God's grace that made that misery bearable. She would have reminded me that God was always speaking , but man was not always listening" (Bagdasarian 76).

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"Who does now remember the Armenians?"

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"All these years later I still ask myself if I should have left my mother and sister. I ask myself this question almost every day. At the time it was just a fact like so many others we had faced in the last few weeks" (Bagdasarian 50).
"For the first time in my life, I was hungry and there was no food, I was thirsty and there was no water. I knew then as I had not known before that the room was real and that my home and my room and my bed had been a dream" (Bagdasarian 36).

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1. "Maybe fifty had been killed, and each lay where he had fallen" (Bagdasarian 49)
2. "I sat on the floor in the dark. There were so many things to think about that I did not want to think at all"(Bagdasarian 75)

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1. "And now the night that had seemed so dark was not dark enough..." (Bagdasarian 63)

2. " But this time was different. This time I sensed that something might be wrong, and every time I'd start to enjoy my freedom, I'd see my father being led away by the gendarmes"

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"Maybe fifty had been killed, and each lay where he had fallen." (Bagdasarian 49)

"Looking into the room, I saw only darkness at first. Then I heard a sound and a part of the floor moved, and I realized it was a floor of bodies." (Bagdasarian 33)

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1. " If had known what lay ahead that morning , i would have cherished every word my brothers spoke." (Bagdasarian 23)
2. "I tried to stand, but I couldn't. My legs were numb and my knees so stiff that I could not unbend them even an inch without pain. Slowly, very slowly, I made it to my feet, my legs actually wobbling with effort, and watched the soldiers pull the other prisoners to their feet until only the dead were left lying on the floor."(Bagdasarian 41).

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"I was not told any details (I was never told any details), so it was only my father shaking his head, the dinner table quiet, Uncle Mumpreh talking urgently and quietly to my grandmother" (Bagdasarian 10).
"Whatever pretense of hope or optimism remained inside me had by now completely disappeared" (Bagdasarian 34)

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"Dem Turks pulled up in a Rari and glocked my  whole famiry" (Rastafarian 69).

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"The bank of the river was strewn with the dead and dying, and we watched the soldiers walk among them, raise their bayonets, and thrust deep into the exposed necks and chests and bellies as though they were made of cloth and sawdust"(Bagadasarian 49).

"I tried to reassure myself, it was a lobby, not a prison, and the steep stairs we climbed would certainly lead to a row of rooms better than any jail cell" (Bagdasarian 33).

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"if there is any trouble he said take the poison and it will all be over."(pg21)
"do we have any food?
no my mother said
water?
we have no water i'm sorry" (pg 35)

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1. "If I close my eyes, I can still see my home as it was" (Bagdasarian 8)
2. I did not know where I was walking and I didn't care" (Bagdasarian 93).

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"But this time was different. This time I sensed that something might be wrong, and every time I'd start to enjoy my freedom, I'd see my father being led away by the gendarmes." (Bagdasarian 12).

"I did not know where I was walking and I didn't care" (Bagdasarian 93).

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"I left her room feeling better, even though I knew that everything she had told me about my father was a lie" (Bagdasarian 14).

"The next morning I ate my breakfast in silence, as though it were my last meal" (Bagdasarian 109).

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"I did not know at that time I was leaving my house forever. I only knew that I was alive, and for a moment I was happy. But as I walked past the open gate and the soldiers mounted their horses, I looked up the street and my heart fell" (Bagdasarian 30).

"I knew then that all the rumors were true, all the screams were real. And it was only the beginning" (Bagdasarian 17).

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" If had known what lay ahead that morning , i would have cherished every word my brothers spoke."
(Bagdasarian 23)

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1. "My arms belonged to that same child, and the faces of my family were almost unrecognizable, the faces of ghosts and mourners." (Bagdasarian 42)
2. "I knew enough about the night, about the cold, about hunger and humiliation to know that there was no such thing as pride." (Bagdasarian 107)

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"She was sick, and she would get well again; she was in pain, and the pain would pass; she would scream, and the screaming would end."(Bagdasarian 39)
"It was a woman, naked, her left breast bloody where the bayonet had entered...There were hundreds of them on the road and alongside the road where grass and wildflowers grew."(Bagdasarian 47)

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"If there is any trouble," he said, "take the poison and it will all be over." No one asked him what kind of trouble could be worse than death. They all seemed to know" (Bagdasarian 21).

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"'we can't ever trust them,' I remember him saying, referring to the Turks. "' We can't ever trust them.' But I knew he could not be talking about our  Turks" (Bagdasarian 10).
"' First you look then you beg' she said 'And you are not a beggar'" (Bagdasarian 46).

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1. "''Do you feel better?'  I did. And I left her room feeling better, even though I knew everything she had told be about my father was a lie"(Bagdasarian 14).
2. "I sat on the floor in the dark. There were so many things to think about that I did not want to think at all"(Bagdasarian  75).