70 Quotes by Nathan Englander

No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not.

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.

No, no,” Arnie says. “Fondle – fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung... ” “Farflung is Yiddish.” “No,” Arnie says, “it’s not.

How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.

You cannot learn to curse like an American.

You rented an apartment with its own escape route?” “I did,” Z says. “It’s not so paranoid when you use it to do just that.

There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar systems. New words for the tanks and the radios inside. But for this, for the hammer and beat of the forge, the Bible still sufficed.

He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to his eyes. He took a deep breath and ignored the sense of injustice, a rich man’s emotion, a feeling Mendel had given up the liberty of experiencing horrors and horrors before.

Only remember, if you don’t find what you need... in this life it’s permissible to forgive oneself too.