“Oh, nothing. Only you really did help them, you know.” “Who?” “All the men who’ve come through this House. You helped them… — Helene Wecker Better things Copy Share Image
“After that, the Jinni was rarely without tobacco and rolling papers. He appreciated the taste of the tobacco, and the warmth of… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“These were the world’s first people. Everything they did, every action and decision, was entirely new, without precedent. They had no larger… — Helene Wecker Right From Wrong Copy Share Image
“A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge… — Helene Wecker Insightful Copy Share Image
“I trust you above all others", he told her. "Above myself". She shook her head, but then leaned into him, as though… — Helene Wecker Love Copy Share Image
“On a cloudless night, ink dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together” — Helene Wecker Walking together Copy Share Image
“The human body is like a piece of fabric. No matter how well one cares for it, it frays as it ages.” — Helene Wecker Human body Copy Share Image
“...A mule kicked him in the head." She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it. Deliberately." Radzin snorted.… — Helene Wecker Better way Copy Share Image
“Now that the book is out in the world, I’m amazed all over again at what my friend did for me in… — Helene Wecker Books Copy Share Image
“As always, Arbeely’s heart squeezed at the sight of her, a not unpleasant ache, as if to say, Ah well. Like many… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“A good healer can’t pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.” — Helene Wecker Pick and choose Copy Share Image
“It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has… — Helene Wecker Death Copy Share Image
“He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of… — Helene Wecker Identity Copy Share Image
“Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed… — Helene Wecker Life Copy Share Image
“Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how any people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Faith is believing in something even without proof, because you know it in your heart to be true.” — Helene Wecker Faith Copy Share Image
“This is preposterous,” he said. “If I say yes, I’m buying something I didn’t ask for. And if I refuse, I’m like… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“I look at what we call faith, and all I see is superstition and subjugation . . . They create false divisions,… — Helene Wecker Faith Copy Share Image
“Let me see if I understand correctly now,” the Jinni said at one point. “You and your relations believe that a ghost… — Helene Wecker Children Copy Share Image
“If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it?” The” — Helene Wecker Love Copy Share Image
“He'd never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made… — Helene Wecker Communication Copy Share Image
“like when he had tried to explain how this God of theirs was somehow three gods and one at the same time.… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“They’d need no reason!” shouted Arbeely. “Why can’t you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!” — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality; Maryam, it seemed, effortlessly reached out from hers and drew… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
