‘It is our Paradise Road. How silent is this place? How sacred is this place?’
Paradise Road is a story about survival, hope and determination in the face of conflict. It reveals the experience of women prisoners of war in a Japanese POW camp on the occupied Island of Sumatra in Indonesia during WW2.
Quotes
‘You think I want to end up in some shallow grave in Sumatra?’
‘The will to survive is very strong, stronger than anything.’
‘You should not be so squeamish with all that you have seen.’
‘Faith—you can do very little with it, and nothing without it.’
‘I just can’t bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them.’
‘Love is like a flame. It burns and is visible to all.’
"There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires." Act 1 Sc 4
Set in the village of Salem, Masachusetts in 1692 this allegorical tale draws parallels between the Salem witch hunt of that year and McCarthyism in the 1950s.
Paradise Road
‘It is our Paradise Road. How silent is this place? How sacred is this place?’
Paradise Road is a story about survival, hope and determination in the face of conflict. It reveals the experience of women prisoners of war in a Japanese POW camp on the occupied Island of Sumatra in Indonesia during WW2.
Quotes
‘You think I want to end up in some shallow grave in Sumatra?’‘The will to survive is very strong, stronger than anything.’
‘You should not be so squeamish with all that you have seen.’
‘Faith—you can do very little with it, and nothing without it.’
‘I just can’t bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them.’
‘Love is like a flame. It burns and is visible to all.’
"There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires." Act 1 Sc 4
Set in the village of Salem, Masachusetts in 1692 this allegorical tale draws parallels between the Salem witch hunt of that year and McCarthyism in the 1950s.