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Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes is takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes is takes the shape of love.

Life is precious, Jacob thought. It is the most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most dificult to remember to have

You're afraid that letting anything out will leave you open to letting things in.

Without love, you die. With love, you also die. Not all deaths are equal.

They were singing, and I knew the song, but not how to join them.

You want to belive that your work should have the significance of a war, that a long marriage should offer the same kind of excitement as a first date

There are only two kinds of Jews of his generation: those who perished and those who survived. We swore our allengiance to the victims, were good on our promise never to forget them. But we turned our backs on those who endured, and forgot them. All our love was for the dead.

The absence of the expression of pain is not the absence of pain

"I wanted to tell you whatever is the genuine version of I am sorry for your loss."
"I don't belive in genuine versions."
"I wish you less sadness, How about that?"

Silence can be as irrepressible as laughter. And it can accumulate, like weightless snowflakes. It can collapse a ceiling.