Нам нужны громаднейшие карманы — такие, чтобы в них умещались наши семьи, и наши друзья, и даже люди, которых нет в наших списках, незнакомые, которых мы все равно хотим защитить. Нам нужны карманы дл...
Мне жаль, что вся жизнь уходит на то, чтобы научиться жизни, Оскар. Будь у меня еще одна жизнь, я бы прожила ее по-другому.Я бы всё изменила.Я бы поцеловала учителя музыки, не боясь, что он меня засме...
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be s...
The desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge.
The current division of the shtetl into its two sections, the Jewish Quarter and the Human Three-Quarters. All so-called sacred activities—religious studies, kosher butchering, bargaining, etc.—were c...
She’d done enough residential architecture to know that the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to a...
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me
But it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one milli...
At the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places.
[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.
[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and...
[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.
You're going to catch a cold.I already have a cold.You are going to catch a colder.
You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren’t finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren’t making you rich. But they were making the world rich
You are very funny Jonathan. No. That is the last thing I want to be. Why? To be funny is a great thing. No it's not. Why is this? I used to thing that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderf...
Yankel's lipstick autobiography came flaking off his bedroom ceiling, falling gently like blood-stained snow to his bed and floor. You are Yankel. You love Brod. You are a Sloucher. You were once marr...
Would I jump or would I burn? I guess I would jump, because then I wouldn't have to feel pain. On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I'd at least have a chance to somehow escape, and eve...
When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eati...
What do you think is going on?' 'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyon...
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.