Landsman Quotes

#1. Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Michael Chabon

#2. Jesus Fucking Christ, she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

Michael Chabon

#3. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. Every hour that passes, another hundredweight of sand is poured in through a tiny hole in Landsman's soul. After his eyes are closed, what happens is never quite sleep, and the thoughts that plague him, though atrocious, are never quite dreams.

Michael Chabon

#5. He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.

Michael Chabon

#6. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

Michael Chabon

#7. There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

William McFee

#8. Bina and Landsman were twisted together, a braided pair of chromosomes with a mystery flaw. And now? Now each of them pretends not to see the other and looks away.
Landsman looks away.

Michael Chabon

#9. Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#10. After all the battles I've fought to save the world and all the sacrifices in dignity and blood I've paid to set free so many Dark-Hunters, they're all going to know that I'm nothing but a pathetic whore, aren't they? (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.

David Duchovny

#12. Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

Dougray Scott

#13. Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Aberjhani

#14. I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Saina Nehwal

#15. Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

George Eliot

#16. When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

D. B. Sweeney

#17. In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time.

Chris Marker