Jeanne

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for”
― Jonathan Rosen, The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds

“With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“And yet I feel an uncanny kinship to Moses as the Rabbis imagine him in that story, as I suppose that the Rabbis intended I should. Theirs was a system that made a virtue of ambivalence and built uncertainty into bedrock assertions of faith. No wonder fundamentalists and fascists have hated it so. And why I feel drawn towards it even now and, in the face of everything, find myself oddly determined to carry my own flawed version away from the slope of Sinai where, according to tradition, my soul stood at the time of the original revelation.”
― Jonathan Rosen, The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds