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

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

She brushed her eyelashes against his chest.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

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.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.