Vaddey Ratner

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”

“Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation”

“I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it”

“He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.”

“words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.”

“Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.”