An extreme always appears more pure than a compromise. - Shulamith Hareven

To a certain extent, all writing is working within tradition: we use idioms, linguistic connections, and associations known to our tribe, because we cannot go outside language, and languages are tribal affairs.

Her laugh is like slivers of sunlight. (about Hulda, chapter 3 p40)

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.