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.

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.