How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).