Jonathan

“What Jewish law wants is an ongoing conversation between man and G-d, and between man and man--but most of all, between man and himself. It's not a command, exactly, but a conversation: an inner song, full of melody and refrain, sometimes heard only by what Rabbi Soloveitchik so movingly called the lonely man of faith”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“When your heart breaks, you can actually feel it, an agonizing stab of pain in a muscle that you know for a fact is just a glorified pump. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the ordered universe changes, the solid ground beneath your feet becomes a slippery rock. The material world that seemed so safe and solid a moment ago becomes a shifting, ghostly place of shadows and mist. Matters that seemed settled and certain a long ago come suddenly unhinged, and you begin to doubt everything you ever knew to be true.”
― Helen Maryles Shankman