Heir to the Glimmering World Quotes

“It had always been my habit— privately I felt it to be an ecstasy— to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library. I was drawn to books that had been read before, novels that girls like myself had cradled and cherished. In my mind— I suppose in my isolation— I seized on all those previous readers, and everyone who would read after me, as phantom companions and secret friends.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World

“But what was wanted—what was wanted for Mrs. Mitwisser—was simply Story: a story about men and women free of history, except their own.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World

“instead he was being led away from his proper Emma by a woman who was conducting a revolution in his kitchen.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World

“Eventually I understood that a man in possession of Bildung was more than merely cultivated: he was ideally purified by humanism, an aristocrat of sensibility and wisdom.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Heir to the Glimmering World