“we’re seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives.”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“We are amalgamated gods sprung whole from the fusion of belief with reality, but usually, the beliefs are pretty steady.”
― The World We Make
― The World We Make
“When you carve yourself out of your entire life, you are not left with much.”
― Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
― Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
“one of those liminal spaces that have proliferated on this earth.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“he’d begun formulating a philosophy of layered and overlapping countries. If a medical misfortune sends you into the country of the sick—which has its own rituals, customs, traditions, and rules—then an Alkaitis sends you into an unstable territory,”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
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