History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?