Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

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

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.