Edeet Ravel > Quotes

“People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.”
― Edeet Ravel, Ten Thousand Lovers

“I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.”
― Edeet Ravel

“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.”
― Edeet Ravel, Held

“Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.”
― Edeet Ravel, Look for Me

“That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.”
― Edeet Ravel

“Are you sure? You have to be sure. I'm not saying that to cover myself, or to put the responsibility on your shoulders. It's my responsibility as much as yours. And I know that in a way no one can be sure about anything like this. I just don't know if this is the right thing, and you have to help me.”
― Edeet Ravel, Look for Me

“Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.”
― Edeet Ravel, Look for Me

“And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you’re closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.”
― Edeet Ravel