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.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?