Top 100 Quotes About Diamant
#1. One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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#2. Yelled, and finally got me on my cheek with a loud slap that made
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#3. Why is it you get more tired from sitting and doing nothing than from running around doing too much?
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#4. He'd been back to Mrs. Stanley's house only three times in the years since Stanwood had chased him out.
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#5. When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman.
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#6. As far as I can tell, common sense hasn't been in fashion for a long time.
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#7. My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.
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#9. It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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#10. I had Benia's hands, Meryt's friendship, the feel of newborn flesh, the smiles of new mothers, a little girl who laughed in my kitchen, a house of my own. It was more than enough.
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#11. With breast cancer." Father Sherry's hand was resting on the statue's shoulder. "Theresa was
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#12. For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.
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#13. After the birth of a boy, mothers rested from one moon to the next, but the birth of a birth-giver required a longer period of separation from the world of men.
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#14. Mameh would complain about America; how the apples had no taste
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#15. That time, I knew she was asking for an opinion. "My mother thinks I am." She said mothers were right to be concerned for their
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#16. They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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#17. Some midwives said that pleasure overheated the seed and killed it. But others claimed that babies only come when women smile. This was the tale she told Jacob to inspire his caresses.
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#18. The older Irene got, the more she swore. I remember when her grandson pooped in his diaper at his christening, she said, 'Holy shit,' loud enough for everyone to hear. The look on that priest's face!
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#19. The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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#21. I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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#22. Blood pounded in Ruth's ears. She had never felt weaker or more confused. This was the moment she'd been living for, but the only thought she could muster was that her mother had not been Phyllis, as she'd been told, but Phoebe. The
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#23. Betty had never been skinny and she was never really fat. She still had a nice shape, but it was well upholstered now and her new dress made the best of it.
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#24. Your daughters are my wives and want none of you. Your grandsons are my sons, and owe you nothing. While I stood on your land, I gave you honor you did not deserve, but now I am not bound by the obligations of guests and hosts.
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#26. But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn't be happy anywhere else.
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#27. He lay across the valley like a sparkling path, the setting sun catching fire on the way.
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#28. You told me about the other side of the universe, where darkness and light are not separated.
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#29. You know the saying about how revenge tastes better cold? Well, it tastes just as good warm.
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#30. One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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#31. If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.
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#32. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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#33. He goes on and on about war like it is something beautiful and noble, which only means he's never seen it himself. War is hideous and it leaves you covered in shit. I cannot kill anyone else. I will not.
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#34. The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want.
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#35. 5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red tent, and far too young to understand her meaning. "We are all born of the same mother," she said. After a lifetime, I knew that to be true.
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#36. One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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#37. Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
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#38. According to the Talmud, if a funeral procession and a wedding procession cross paths, the wedding party goes first. Life is more important than death.
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#39. I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.
Gertrude Diamant
#40. Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.
'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.
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#41. If you sit on the bank of a river, you see only a small part of its surface. And yet, the water before your eyes is proof of unknowable depths.
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#42. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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#43. I'll give her the whole day off from work - with pay.
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#44. And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched.
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#45. I could not get my fill of looking.
There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
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#46. You should always be kind to people, Ava. You never know what sorrows they're carrying around.
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#47. A girl should always have her own money so she's never beholden to anyone." I
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#48. The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ... ] the stronger the daughter.
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#49. I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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#50. I'm still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself.
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#51. Being an artist is more than a job or a skill; it's a way of walking through the world.
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#52. We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing.
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#53. Nothing is as good as it used to be." I swore I would never talk like that and you know what? Now that I'm an old lady myself, I think that most things are better than they used to be. Look at the computers. Look at your sister,
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#54. It is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?
Gertrude Diamant
#56. Remember this moment, when your mother's body heals every trouble of your soul.
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#57. I would curse the whole nation but for that Canaanite woman's kindness ... I never saw her face, but I imagine it shining with light and beauty. Indeed, when I think of her, I see the face of the full moon.
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#58. Please, let me explain why I have spoken about things that should never be discussed, and which I will never mention again. "Martha
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#59. Other people were turning in their papers and I still hadn't written a word. I was starting to panic until out of the blue I remembered my father saying that Jews answered questions with more questions. So that's what I did.
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#61. kitchen, where she could count on Tirzah to be
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#62. When a shy person smiles, it's like the sun coming out.
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#63. The world seemed so perfect, so complete, and yet so impermanent that I nearly wept.
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#65. On the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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#66. Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water.
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#67. Italians are just as good as Jews when it comes to guilt.
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#68. She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went.
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#70. My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served.
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#71. I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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#72. Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to the Saturday Club to Rockport Lodge to working at the newspaper to meeting Aaron.
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#73. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.
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#74. I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel.
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#75. It took me until I was almost forty before I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.
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#76. I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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#77. I made her promise to write, but artists are artists, not writers. She did send postcards, though: a lot of postcards - sometimes
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#78. My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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#79. But I believe that girls need gumption, too, especially in this day and age. I believe you are a girl with gumption.
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#80. The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents.
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#82. Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
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#84. We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening.
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#85. Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child ... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment.
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#88. It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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#89. How could she find the courage to kill herself when she had no courage for life?
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#91. The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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#92. Sometimes friends grow apart. You tell each other everything and you're sure this is a person you'll know the rest of your life but then she stops writing or calling, or you realize she's really not so nice, or she turns into a right-winger.
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#93. Ruth had come so far and lived so lonely only to learn that she was the daughter of a rapist and a murderer. She was half-sister to a smug fool who would probably have used Phoebe as ill as his father, had he been given the chance.
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#94. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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#95. Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction.
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#96. It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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#97. Purple - the color of royalty and holiness and wealth.
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#98. How did I get to be the woman I am today? It started in that library, in the reading club. That's where I started to be my own person.
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#99. The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
Gertrude Diamant
#100. Zilpah had little use for men, whom she described as hairy, crude, and half human. Women needed men to make babies and to move heavy objects, but otherwise she didn't understand their purpose, much less appreciate their charms.
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