A Pigeon and a Boy Quotes

“That’s true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“What does a person need?' she proclaimed one day after the first spoonful of dessert. 'Not much: something sweet to eat, and a story to tell, and time and space, and gladioluses in a vase, and two friends, and two hilltops, one on which to stand and the other upon which to gaze. And two eyes for watching the heavens and waiting....”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“Tizrah split each fig and gave one half to me while she bit into the other half. She explained that every fig tastes different from the next, even if they grew on the same tree. "Meshulam told me it isn't nice if someone gets a good fig and someone else gets a rotten one, so you have to split every fig between the people eating them.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“Ръка, която лесно можеш да си представиш как стиска приклада на пушката, гали внучето по главата, удря по масата и умело обгръща женски талии и хълбоци.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“In such situations it is a good idea to divide hope into small bits of reality, not to expect a huge miracle at the end of the road but to wish for the grace of the few feet just ahead.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy

“My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.”
― Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy