“She loved Hugo with that superb kind of love a mother has for a male child, a love that is deeper and more pure for knowing that he'll more than likely turn out a fool.”
― The Mighty Red
― The Mighty Red
“Today we know too much about life under occupation, before and after Oslo, to take seriously the claim that non-resistance will ensure less oppression.”
― Ten Myths About Israel
― Ten Myths About Israel
“I never will - no, I certainly never will wish for a letter again,' was Fanny's secret declaration, as she finished this. 'What do they bring but disappointment and sorrow?”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“It would be fair to conclude, then, that successive Israeli governments did all they could to leave the Palestinians with no option but to trust, and vote for, the one group prepared to resist an occupation described by the renowned American author Michael Chabon as 'the most grievous injustice I have seen in my life.”
― Ten Myths About Israel
― Ten Myths About Israel
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