Atara

“My answer is: Recognize yourself in others”
― Nadine Gordimer

“A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.”
― Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

“At four in the afternoon the old moon bleeds radiance into the grey sky.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Language lives. It inhales culture and history. It sprouts new limbs, sloughs off old ones. It goes through cycles of rapid growth, unremarkable periods of stable maturity, decay, and sometimes, as with Hebrew, miraculous rebirth.”
― Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq