" On your birth certificate, forever and ever, it will say that you were born on September 11, 2001. But it will never explain to you ow things were before that day. It will never tell you how your parents cried as they watched the world change on the day their children were born. We wept for the dead and the living, because we knew nothing would ever be the same. The two of you would never know the world as we did. And there was nothing we could do about it. From the day you were born, we knew the extent of our own powerlessness. "

― Jason Mott , The Crossing