Lavie Tidhar

“They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?”

— Lavie Tidhar

“Listen to this. A bomb goes off downtown and the police arrest the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and Osama…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.”

— Lavie Tidhar

“There might be a war on, there might be Nazi tanks on the Champs Elysées and Jews rounded up in the Marais,…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war…

— Lavie Tidhar

“In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.”

— Lavie Tidhar

“And also they’re just good escapist fun," Vivian said firmly, and Gill subsided beside her, giving an apologetic smile. "To read about…

— Lavie Tidhar

“This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits…

— Lavie Tidhar

“... but is it crime or an act of war?" Depends on who's telling the story ...”

— Lavie Tidhar

“You know, Herr Schleier? It shimmered a pale blue, the ice did. And the sky, so black, a darkness undisturbed, so very…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Joe wished it had all been just a dream. To think of planes crashing into impossibly-tall towers, of bombs taking out eyes…

— Lavie Tidhar

“But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Clocks are the enemies of time... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night." Tom Thumb”

— Lavie Tidhar