Adam Mansbach > Quotes

“I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“All the kids from daycare are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no you can't go to the bathroom.
You know where you can go?
The f**k to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“When the golem has accomplished its mission—typically the martial defense of the Jewish people (as was the case with the Golem of Prague, widely considered the Michael Jordan of golems), but sometimes manual labor (the task appointed to the Golem of Chelm, usually regarded as the Scottie Pippen of golems)—the aleph is erased from his forehead, changing the word truth to the word death and causing the golem to return to a state of vacant immobility, like a toddler in front of a television screen.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“But outside the bubble, beliefs could easily get decoupled from deeds, and if you didn’t do everything, it became easier and easier to do nothing.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“What was Judaism if not an exacting, totalized system of laws handed down by the divine, then kitted out with redundancies and fail-safes by the scholars to eliminate any chance of an infraction—building a wall around the Torah, it was called, the process by which don’t cook a goat in its mother’s milk ballooned into never mix dairy with meat, buy two sets of dishes, wash them in different dishwashers—and then, finally, poked full of loopholes so the devout might obediently circumvent those laws?”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“Hebrew was not a language Len knew; he had grown up observant only in the sense that he noticed things.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“The cats nestle close to their kittens,
The lambs have lain down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear.
Please go the fuck to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“All the kids from day care are in dreamland.
The froggie has made his last leap.
Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom.
You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“We’re finally watching our movie.
Popcorn’s in the microwave. Beep.
Oh shit. Goddamn it. You’ve got to be kidding.
Come on, go the fuck back to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“Miri just stared at him, her face throwing off so much heat she expected to see the air between the two of them go wavy.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“The flowers doze low in the meadows
And high on the mountains so steep.
My life is a failure, I’m a shitty-ass parent.
Stop fucking with me, please, and sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“The cubs and the lions are snoring,
Wrapped in a big snuggly heap.
How come you can do all this other great shit
But you can’t lie the fuck down and sleep?”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“The wind whispers soft through the grass, hon.
The field mice, they make not a peep.
It’s been thirty-eight minutes already.
Jesus Christ, what the fuck? Go to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“There was a dumbest guy in every mob.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“The tiger reclines in the simmering jungle.
The sparrow has silenced her cheep.
Fuck your stuffed bear, I’m not getting you shit.
Close your eyes. Cut the crap. Sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“The owls fly forth from the treetops.
Through the air, they soar and they sweep.
A hot crimson rage fills my heart, love.
For real, shut the fuck up and sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“The windows are dark in the town, child.
The whales huddle down in the deep.
I’ll read you one very last book if you swear
You’ll go the fuck to sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep

“The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest
And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep.
I know you’re not thirsty. That’s bullshit. Stop lying.
Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.”
― Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep