I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.
Nathan Englander43. My couch is 92 inches; it’s a deep green three-cushion. It seats hundreds. But that’s not why I got it. I got it because, lying down the long way, in the spooning-in-front-of-a-movie way, in the head-to-toe lying with a pair of lamps burning and a pair of people reading, it fits me and another – it fits her – really well.
Nathan EnglanderElke zomer worden de oude mensen kleiner terwijl de kinderen groter worden. Volgens Josh is er maar een bepaalde lengte beschikbaar op aarde en verwisselen de centimeters alleen van eigenaar.
Nathan EnglanderČovjekovo pravo biće pokazuje se u tri slučaja. Kad je posrijedi novac, kad govori u srdžbi i kad je pijan.
Nathan EnglanderThey went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.
Nathan EnglanderHarder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.
Nathan EnglanderTags: nightmares
How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.
Nathan EnglanderIt is hard to know what a person would and wouldn't do in any specific instance. And you, spoiled child, apply the rules of civilization to a boy who had only seen its opposite. Maybe the fault for those deaths lies in a system designed for the killing of Tendlers that failed to do its job. An error, a slip that allowed a Tendler, no longer fit, back loose in the world.
Nathan EnglanderAnd we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.
Nathan EnglanderThese are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea.
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