Top 23 Julie Orringer Quotes
#1. I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
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#2. What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?
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#3. There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.
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#4. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck
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#5. Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her
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#6. And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.
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#7. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
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#8. Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation.
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#10. I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
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#11. He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past.
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#12. He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.
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#13. Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?
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#14. No one can hold all of me at once. Does this constitute a crime?
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#15. Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.
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#17. It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.
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#18. Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work.
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#19. When he thought of the word mercy, it was the Yiddish word that came to his mind: rachmones, whose root was rechem, the Hebrew word for womb. Rachmones: a compassion as deep and as undeniable as what a mother felt for her child.
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#20. This was what dying meant, Helena thought-everything that had been you,leaving.
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#21. He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.
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#22. Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
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