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… — 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
