“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it.
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Read Everything is Illuminated, if not only for the story between Brod and her adoptive father Yankel. It was more than brutally truthful – it was the Truth, and it’s a beautiful one.
Q 
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