What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.