Zoe Klein > Quotes

“Maybe the face of the one you love reflects you better than your own face.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from which we come. It is not that we come from ashes and nothingness and return to the same ashes and nothingness. The dust we return to has history. The ashes we become were touched, inscribed, detailed, adorned. They glowed.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“I have been digging through graves looking for proof that civilizations, people and stories don't really ever die, but what I've learned, over and over, is that they always do.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“There are two ways to live your life, Page. You can live your life swimming against the current, exhausting yourself. Or you can live your life being carried by life itself, sailing with the wind, being pulled toward every new day instead of running from every day that's past. Death-centered or life-centered. You have always been the been the former, but now, I don't know, you sound different.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
Adore to weeping,
Love to laughing,
Desire to praising.
Tickle, giggle, kiss!
Adonai my God,
For one moment in love,
Let alone a thousand,
Let alone my life,
For the honor of raising and loving
Children in love,
Praise of You is ever upon my lips.”
― Zoe Klein

“Rather let my left hand take my right hand captive than witness one nation enslave and demolish another. Rather let my heart drag my feet away in chains than witness one ruler flex at the expense of another. Let the flags of nations be white and blank and lifted in the great surrender of humanity.
The Scroll of Anatiya 25:3436”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.”
― Zoe Klein

“There is eternity in every second.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“The only thing that's really yours is you, so you have every right to keep it for yourself.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“Pursue wisdom, my child, but know first of all this is no skip through a pasture. This is a tiresome mountain climb and the summit is far beyond your years but there are treasures along the way.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing In the Dust

“The only thing that's really your is you, so you have every right to keep it for yourself.”
― Zoe Klein

“Pursue wisdom, my child, but first that this is no skip through the pasture. This is a tiresome mountain climb and the summit is far beyond your years but there are treasures along the way.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust

“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.”
― Zoe Klein, Drawing in the Dust