Emma Loeber

“You need the instinct of a person who knows how to fit in, to remove the sharp edges and curve into the society." But when he wasn't a spy yet, just a proud youth perceptive enough to notice condescension, it hurt to round his edges.”
― Matti Friedman, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel

“I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“They weren't interested, because I was the one who wanted to join them, and not the other way around.”
― Matti Friedman

“Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray