Top 31 Orringer Quotes
#1. Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.
Dan Chaon
#2. He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.
Julie Orringer
#4. Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
Julie Orringer
#5. He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.
Julie Orringer
#6. This was what dying meant, Helena thought-everything that had been you,leaving.
Julie Orringer
#7. 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.
Julie Orringer
#8. Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Meryl Streep
#9. 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.
Julie Orringer
#10. It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return.
Julie Orringer
#12. You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!
C.S. Lewis
#13. 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.
Julie Orringer
#14. No one can hold all of me at once. Does this constitute a crime?
Julie Orringer
#15. 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?
Julie Orringer
#16. There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
Simon Schama
#17. I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
Bruno Mars
#18. 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.
Julie Orringer
#19. Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
Pete Rozelle
#20. If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
Matt Chandler
#21. I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
Julie Orringer
#23. But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.
Miep Gies
#24. 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.
Julie Orringer
#25. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
Julie Orringer
#26. And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.
Julie Orringer
#27. Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her
Julie Orringer
#28. 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
Julie Orringer
#29. There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.
Julie Orringer
#30. What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?
Julie Orringer
#31. I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.
Julie Orringer
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