Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselves. Laden with my own egotism. Laden with all my sins. And when I went to bed last night and thought about everything and wanted to bring all those difficulties to God, I couldn't even find the words!

— Diet Eman

Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness... Mrs. Former was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones.

— Diet Eman

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. Furthermore, I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

— Diet Eman

If you don't speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!" This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life... I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live.

— Diet Eman

I had great pity on Angle, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality.

— Diet Eman

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

— Diet Eman

I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown.

— Diet Eman

I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.

— Diet Eman

It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.

— Diet Eman

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

— Diet Eman