There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

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

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel, between Europe and Israel, between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The distances seem to be widening wherever you look.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.