Top 7 Quotes by Naomi Benaron

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.

Naomi Benaron

Running, Thinking, Discipline

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Naomi Benaron

Beautiful, World, Saddest

Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

Naomi Benaron

Home, Sleep, Coming Home

Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.280, Oneworld Publications

Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

Naomi Benaron

Feet, Evil, Giving

"Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

Naomi Benaron

Running, Rift, Stories

"Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

Naomi Benaron

Airports, Wings, Rolling

"Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. Jenuary 3, 2012.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Naomi Benaron

Mother, Holocaust, Guilt

"Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.