I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

With pencil, you can always erase.

It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. – Bees of the World.

Do not leave it to fate. You must be the one who does the resurrecting.

When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice.

They speak of Jesus as having had no wife,” Lavi told me. That was a conundrum I puzzled over for months. Was it because I was absent when he traveled about Galilee during his ministry? Was it because women were so often invisible? Did they believe making him celibate rendered him more spiritual? I found no answers, only the sting of being erased.

Very often silence becomes the female drug of choice.

Where had I been that I didn’t know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

How often do we do that, he wondered – look at someone and fail to see what’s really there?