70 Quotes by Nathan Englander

You wouldn't leave me?" he'd asked her honestly afraid....In answer, Miri had taken her time before sharing a kind of warning. "I can tell you I'd never leave you. I can also tell you that what makes any marriage work is the knowledge that no relationship should be taken for granted. That there is always a line where the one who'd never leave you is suddenly gone.

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

They went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.

The information. It's out there, Rebbe. This part is not a sin.

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.

There is only one thing I can guess in a house with no personal details of any kind, and a man who tells me only stories from when he was young. You're a spy? Yes?''Sort of,' is Z's unsatisfactory answer.'Sort of?' 'The term. It really gets misused.' And trying to appease her, Z says, 'I mean, colloquially.

Elke zomer worden de oude mensen kleiner terwijl de kinderen groter worden. Volgens Josh is er maar een bepaalde lengte beschikbaar op aarde en verwisselen de centimeters alleen van eigenaar.