"Kennedy goes where our own hearts have led us since we first saw the pictures and heard the stories to that place inside ourselves where anguish lodges and teaches us to treasure our own blessings." -Anna Quindlen, from the Foreword

"Manhattan has been washed in the blood of the lamb, and Ground Zero is sacred because its ruins are imbued with the mystery of the lives that were lived there. This is our century's Titanic, this shipwrecked vessel from whose passengers, crew, and rescuers we learn more every day about what makes anything sacred. How could we miss it? How can we not eat and drink of this profound sacrament?"-Eugene Kennedy