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

The peace must not be seen as a peace of industrialists and yuppies; it must not be seen as a peace between people in suits who have Philippine maids, on the backs of, and over the heads of those who are referred to too clinically as the “lower tenth percentiles”—in simple Hebrew, the have-nots.

If we insist on absolute justice, the reckoning of lives will never end. All we can talk about is beneficial justice, beneficial for both sides-that is, a territorial compromise and the continuation of the conflict at the negotiating table.

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.