Carol Matas Professions : Writer Born : November 14, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Carol Matas (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg Carol Matas ruth starting-over memories I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg Carol Matas numbness sick feelings We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better. Carol Matas hate choices evil I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me. Carol Matas strong trying past Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors