Shulamith Hareven Quotes

the two of them, really, what an idea.

From now on there will always be a great self-consciousness between us, as between people who have gone too far.

Reality seems to have broken up into little particles that she can't fit together again.

Shmaryahu's blue eyes seem frozen to him, focused on some other world.

Ido chatters gaily as a sparrow.

She feels sad that the light has gone; she thinks of darkness as one of those bad times that only being old enough can get you through, with a measure of resignation.

Midway in life, as at its outset, you do not trust your body not to fail or disappoint you.

Ido's mother is the only person with whom Ada can really laugh out loud, the way you can laugh with someone who has known you since childhood.

Together with her, we feel how stuffy the car is, how the world is boxing her in.

Past Latrun, between the low hills and the mountains,Ada, without warning, finds herself driving into fear. (first line)

The smell of monstrous pity remained in the empty room.

They were born without, and I was quibbling over a housecoat.

A profound weariness was reflected in his eyes, a sorrow intermittently replenished; he was like a boxer's old punching bag, still suffering blow after blow, still returning to the hand that struck it.

Perhaps he did not know about that land at all, though it was so near, right beyond the wall, only a password between the twilight and it. Most people do not know.

I held on to the parapet and breathed hard. A fierce desire had come and gone and left me reeling.