For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoidingyou, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stonesweep. And the way we love is no exception