“Maybe it was a storybook beginning.”

“What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.”

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”

“Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

“It's time to grow uo. You might want some showdown like in the storybooks, but this is not a storybook. This is war. And I can tell you, as someone who watched our families blown out an air lock with my own eyes, war doesn't have a happy ending. Not for anyone.”

“For a sweeter kiss had never been bestowed upon a girl. Not in storybooks or real life.Not in heaven or hell.”