The Persian Quotes

“Love comes with a knife . . . You have been walking the ocean’s edge Holding up your robes to keep them dry You must dive naked under and deeper under A thousand times deeper. Love flows down”
― David McCloskey, The Persian: A Novel

“At first the General was disappointed. He failed to break a man! But slowly his frustration has matured to wonderment at the sight of the man’s soul blinking through his eyes. He has kept it. All along the pris oner has kept his soul. Sometimes, though the General never says this aloud, he wonders if captivity was required for the man to find one at all.”
― David McCloskey, The Persian: A Novel

“A recreational root canal is a more pleasant experience than discussions”
― David McCloskey, The Persian: A Novel

“He had spent his adult life hoping Israel might become a normal country, that Jews might be normal people.”
― David McCloskey, The Persian: A Novel

“The Americans he knew best possessed a rosy nostalgia about the past and a preposterous hope for the future.”
― David McCloskey, The Persian: A Novel