He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.