“She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.”
“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”
“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
“A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?”
“I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.”
“My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.”