What is the most significant quote for chapters 1-3 of Night? Explain why you think it's significant.

I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this would not be real. A nightmare perhaps …

This quote sepaks to the violence Eliezer witnessed.... so horrific that he didn't trust his own eyes.