Joseph

“We did not study Talmud. Instead, his father talked of the Jewish world in Europe, of the people he had known who were now probably dead, of the brutality of the world, of his years in Russia with the Cossack bands looting and plundering.

'The world kills us,' he said quietly. 'Ah, how the world kills us.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“She was highly invested in an intricate and important scenario, but the instant she awoke, she couldn't remember anything about it. Good practice for death.”
― Helen Phillips

“So vanish friendships only made in wine.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

“Making people laugh is the hardest work in the world. Look how easy it is to make them cry?”
― Ruth Plumly Thompson, The Cowardly Lion of Oz