Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.