Jonathan

“Go ahead, he said. I dare you. He exaggerated each word now now, as though teaching elocution to a foreigner. I like you, Aaron Levy-you are a decent human being after all.
Her mouth had shut. she opened She opened it, after a time, to say only only, You're a bigger fool than I thought.
That was close he said. We'll tray again sometime, okay? Don't feel bad, you almost got it”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“What Jewish law wants is an ongoing conversation between man and G-d, and between man and man--but most of all, between man and himself. It's not a command, exactly, but a conversation: an inner song, full of melody and refrain, sometimes heard only by what Rabbi Soloveitchik so movingly called the lonely man of faith”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984