“A magician’s business is with words. He may use other things to help him along—amulets and so forth—but it is within words that the power lies. To choose the wrong words may mean death. And so magicians learn, from the first, to use as few words as possible, to answer as few questions as we can.”
“She felt that she had seen beneath the mask of the world, and she could not quite believe in that mask again.”
Lisa Goldstein
“Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already.”
Lisa Goldstein
“You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.”
Lisa Goldstein
“You are wrong, Rabbi. You did not kill your daughter. And it does not matter now if you could have done something to save her or not. To think about what might have happened is useless. You can think ...”
Lisa Goldstein
““You can’t ask questions like that,” André said. “The unconscious has its own logic.” But he looked a little puzzled, a little too tied to the world of logic and order.”
Lisa Goldstein
