We Never Talk about My Brother
Peter S. Beagle
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)”
“The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)”
“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes." (King Pelles the Sure)”
“How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?”
“But I felt them...hungry shadows who knew my name, clawing at my mind and my soul to be let in - and if I let them in there would be nothing left of me but skin; nothing but a shadow inside, like themselves. (By Moonlight)”
“So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)”
“I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.”
“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”
“We give them different names, those nights lit only by fire and the moon, depending on the country and the calendar, but we know what they are. They call up the world that was before the Lord came down among us; the world where good and evil were not so certain, so fixed as they are today, where the known and the unheard-of could mingle as they chose...where truth had its doubts, do you see? (By Moonlight)”
“Like that Chinese monkey trying to grab the moon in the water," Uncle Chaim said to me once. "That's me, a Chinese monkey." (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)”
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Book Keywords:
angels, angel-of-death, shadows, happiness, love, envy, foolishness, good-vs-evil-light-vs-dark, war, heroes, shame, sin
