Unbroken

“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”

Key takeaway

At a certain point you can’t even be yourself if you are being treated so inhumane

“It can be best explained by the fact that it took an awful lot of willpower to take the last part of starch from my rice bowl in order to stick a snapshot of my wife to a piece of plywood.”

Key takeaway

Willpower is all you have

“What God asks of men, said Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.”

Key takeaway

You need to believe so much so that you don’t need to see it but can still maintain faith