I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.