" I was horrified about how to ever put the first line on the paper to tell this story, let alone finish telling it. I confess that I hate finishing stories. Stories should never end.
The book is over, but the battle for a decent life and a more tolerable world is not. The book is over, but I hope that the stories of my interlocutors will start a new dialogue, a new language, and a new way of looking at things. I hope this work will make many other works possible. So, now that this work is finished, I hope that its life shall begin. "

― Louis Yako , Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile