“And also they’re just good escapist fun," Vivian said firmly, and Gill subsided beside her, giving an apologetic smile. "To read about these horrible things and know they never happened, and when you’re finished you can put down the book… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“What if the Cairo Conference of 1921 went ahead as planned, with Churchill and T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell dividing up the Middle East… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“What did you see? She says. Reaches around to fondle him again. This time he lets her. She feels him harden. I saw them… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“I have a lot of time to think. To look at the strands of the past weave themselves into the knots of the present,… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again, before moving,… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“It's a small publication dedicated to a scholarly discourse of the Osamaverse.” — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“Joe looked out of the window again. He had the feeling that outside the window there should have been hover-cars, men in trilby hats… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image