"I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins."

"But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof th…"

"Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be h…"

""You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to und…"

"Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be... may we live togeth…"

"SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favorite-child sadness; Sadness of b[e…"

"So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his ent…"

"It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my…"

"She spent the afternoon staring at their front door. "Waiting for someone?" Yankel asked. "What color is this?" He st…"

"I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how b…"