Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

To help someone, is to understand them

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

You don't fix the problem until you define it.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?