“For the first time, she felt it: this was the freedom her brother had sought. There was life in London. There was life in her. And desire. A flame leapt in her, defiant of the bounds in which she'd imprisoned… — 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 this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every time you stand in line at the market. FIFTEEN ITEMS OR LESS. Caring passionately about grammar—caring… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share
“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 of all the philosophers, Esther now saw that thought proved nothing. Had Descartes, near his own death, come at last to see his folly? The mind was only an apparatus within the mechanism of the body… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share
“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 body had woken to his challenge - just as every caged part of her, her thoughts, her breath, her pulse, seemed to wake now to this city from which she'd hidden herself. London, which had consumed… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share
“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
