People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. -… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.” — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“The request had been impossible to refuse, delivered as it was in Darcy’s perennial air of wry cheer—a demeanor Aaron was certain was tattooed… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“I’m an ivy twined so long against a tower of strange design that I cannot now assume any other shape.” — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself...and despite all the arguments… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“It is not God’s will,” Aaron quoted, “that Jews should wager on the Messiah as dicers will.” — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“She'd insulted Manuel HaLevy today because he angered her - yet, she admitted, also to pique him. For those Esther disliked him, still her… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“You’re American,” she said simply. “You think straightforwardness is a virtue.” — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might nourish both… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“For the first time, she felt it: this was the freedom her brother had sought. There was life in London. There was life in… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“Our life is a walk in the night, we know not how great the distance to the dawn that awaits us. And the path… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
