A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained. — Binnie Kirshenbaum Boxes Copy Share Image
“That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Hope Copy Share Image
“Semille wept not because she did something stupid; she wept because she *didn't* do something stupid. Sometimes, to do something stupid--to disobey… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Life Copy Share Image
“I probably said something about being happy for him, because I was happy for him, although to be happy for someone else… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Happiness Copy Share Image
“A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would've taken the shape of a daisy.” — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“The end of all things--a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost,… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Books Copy Share Image
I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought. — Binnie Kirshenbaum Anxiety Copy Share Image
“I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not*… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Every day Copy Share Image
“Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.” — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Second chance Copy Share Image
“Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Life Copy Share Image
“ I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Some people don't like to remember," Vincent said. "Not even the good things?" "Especially not the good things.” — Binnie Kirshenbaum Good thing Copy Share Image
“Maybe it has something to do with the pull of the moon because, despite the statistical improbability of any two people meeting… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“But there's always a choice. We make our choice, and then we put the blame on fate. ” — Binnie Kirshenbaum Choice Copy Share Image
“In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Mother Copy Share Image
“But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Happy ending Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Another time Copy Share Image
“Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Nostalgia Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever. — Binnie Kirshenbaum Character Copy Share Image
“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the… — Binnie Kirshenbaum God and man Copy Share Image
