"There are 33 of them,

and Jesus died and came back to life when he was 33" -Bernarda Lorca



69 päivää maan uumenissa pakottaa ihmisen kohtaamaan itsensä.

Varjoja. Demoneja.

Valo.

Jumala.

"There are actually 34 of us, because God has never left us down here." -Jimmy Sanchez

“I was with God and I was with the devil; they fought me but God won. He took me by my best hand, the hand of God, and I held on to him. I never thought for one minute that God wouldn't get me out of there. I believe that I had extraordinary luck, I believe this was a test. ... I believe that God does test people and I believe that we have the possibility to confront things in life such as what we had to confront, ... but I'm very happy that it happened to me because I believe it was the moment in which to make changes. -Mario Sepulveda

“I have come back to life. (...) Sometimes you need something to happen in your life to really reflect and understand that we only have one life. I changed, I am a different person.” -Mario Gomez

"Can you imagine? After 30 years of marriage we will start sending each other love letters again. I want to tell him that I love him so much. I want to tell him that things will be different, that we will have a new life. I will wait as long as I need to see my husband again." -Mrs Gomez

"We're very religious people in this line of work (...) When you enter a mine, you're automatically entrusting yourself to God." -Juan Sanchez

"Under the earth there is a ray of light, my path, and faith is the last thing that is lost ... I have been born again" -Victor Zamora Bugueno

"The big lesson from all of this is that we have to be united. This is for the world." -Mario Castillo

"Hopefully the spirit of these miners will remain forever with us" -Chilen presidentti Sebastian Pinera

(kuva: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/rescued_from_a_chilean_mine.html)