"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Ne…"

"Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its qui…"

"What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. …"

"I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden…"

"“friendship in marriage is its own thing: friendship in a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, or a cappuccino every Sunda…"

"In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms"

"They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a worl…"

"Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets …"

"It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men d…"

"The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Per…"