We Never Talk about My Brother Quotes

“Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“But I felt them...hungry shadows who knew my name, clawing at my mind and my soul to be let in - and if I let them in there would be nothing left of me but skin; nothing but a shadow inside, like themselves. (By Moonlight)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."
(King Pelles the Sure)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“We give them different names, those nights lit only by fire and the moon, depending on the country and the calendar, but we know what they are. They call up the world that was before the Lord came down among us; the world where good and evil were not so certain, so fixed as they are today, where the known and the unheard-of could mingle as they chose...where truth had its doubts, do you see?
(By Moonlight)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“Like that Chinese monkey trying to grab the moon in the water," Uncle Chaim said to me once. "That's me, a Chinese monkey."
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“...and it's not my place to chase around after you, fixing stuff. What I know's what I know, and it don't include putting the world back the way it out to be. It's too late for that. Way too late for heroes, champions, miracles. Don't matter what our heritage was maybe meant for - your side got hold of it first, and you won long ago. No undoing that, Esau, I ain't fool enough to think otherwise. I'm still sorry for you, but I know your side's won, this side of the grave.”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother