Rebecca Kanner > Quotes

“Without them we would not know that we can rise up again after any attack, no matter how brutal. But I fear we have met an enemy too big to defeat with strength alone. We will need wisdom and cunning to survive.”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther: A Novel

“We are strong—our enemies have kept us that way. They are the secret of our strength. We would not have to be strong if they were not always rising up from every direction,”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther: A Novel

“The bravest thing a person can do is survive when it would seem to most that little is left. You have survived to help someone,”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther: A Novel

“Yes, I have lost battles. I can say this, because I will not lose the war.”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther

“A queen's story ends with her son's, unless she has no son, and then it ends with her king's.”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther

“All gods are gods of war, our God and all of the false gods people have invented. That is the only kind.”
― Rebecca Kanner, Esther