You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.