Norma Moskowitz

“The freedoms that we cherish are meaningless without our commitments to one another: to civil discourse, to actively educating the next generation, to welcoming strangers, to loving our neighbors. The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility. Our night of vigil has already begun.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“Grief is a wild animal that drags us so far out into the darkness that we can’t imagine ever getting home again.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Humans grow from small to large and then sometimes recede again as they approach the end of their life span, but they always have four limbs, twenty digits, two eyes on the front of their heads. Their dependence upon their parents is unusually prolonged. Certainly it makes sense that the smallest children require assistance with the most basic of tasks: eating, drinking, urinating, defecating. Their short stature and clumsy limbs make these activities difficult. But as they gain physical independence, oddly, their struggle continues. They summon mother or father at the slightest need: an untied shoelace, a sealed juice box, a minor conflict with another child. Young humans would fail abysmally in the sea.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s