1.   From that day to this we have lived in the shadow of that cloud and the bombs that stir it to terrifying life.

2.   Someone once said that we tell stories to exorcise our terrifying lives.

3.   Telling stories, someone once said, is a way of exorcising a terrifying life.

4.   The non-Serbs worry the last burst of Serb rage could hit them now, after four years of an often terrifying life.