“Your life is only one sentence in the Book of Life.”
“If you could sum up your life in one sentence, then you didn’t live much of a life.”
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
“His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.”
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.”