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‘“I talk,’ I say. ‘I just don’t like words very much. I don’t like how people use them.’”

“The people here want you to love what they offer. And if they want to show you love through food, you let them know you see it. And then you show love back the best way you know how. That’s home.”

“But, taking the life he’d been given, he found a way to move on anyway.”

“There’s magic in the world tonight and every night. If only he would open his eyes to see it.”

“And we don’t talk about feelings in my family. We pull ourselves together. We keep going. Steady, steady. People like Simon can afford to have feelings. People like me and Pop, survivors? We work, and we don’t feel anything at all. We can’t escape who we are, but maybe we don’t need to. Maybe our future is predicated on what came before.”

“He might consider himself a gourmand, might love to consume the fruits of our bagels, but I don’t think it really makes sense to him, why anyone would want to actually live a life so small.”

“‘People want things,’ he says. ‘No shame in that. Problem is, they’re not willing to sacrifice for them. Not willing to give up something to get something.’”

“I tell myself that I’ve got to do crazy, hard, and brave things, like Grandma’s done all her life, to be anything like her.”

“I don’t really know what I live for, but if I can point to anything it is this. A conversation with a stranger that can turn into a friendship. If not that, then just a memorable conversation. If we all die and our lives are forgotten, it is these conversations that make an impression on a deletable history of the world.”