Death of an Ordinary Man Quotes

“The French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, in her book Living with Our Dead, writes of the sacred stories connecting the living with the dead: ‘The role of the storyteller,’ she says, ‘is to stand by the gate to ensure it stays open.”
― Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man

“what had changed wasn’t the land, but the view.”
― Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man

“now I understand there are no ordinary lives – that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable it represents a miracle, and irreplaceable in every particular.”
― Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man

“The trouble is of course that dead men don’t tell tales, and it’s left to the living to say to each other, uncontradicted: it was like this, and then it was like this. Pg159”
― Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man