Best 15 quotes of Julie Orringer on MyQuotes

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.

At times, circumstances conspire to make us believe the lies we tell ourselves. Everything- the weather, the season, the fall of light- sets the stage for our play; we find ourselves, instead of acting, becoming the characters, moving into a reality in which we're inseparable from our roles.

But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change

Nothing at all to change: what a thing to want in the midst of war.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me." "Everyone means something to someone.

This is the Centre Americain de Secours. What is more American than wild hope?

Varian had to remind himself that these were not merely political ciphers, nor scrawled signatures, nor ghostly photographic images; they were human beings, real men and women whose genius placed them at risk, who were in peril, in concentration camps, in hiding, or worse, living in plain view, ignorant to the threat of their own lives.