Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories Quotes

“Of course you can't understand. All you can do is destroy a village without knowing anything about its people or its history, without wanting to know. Just like that. Like a mad bull. Of course you don't understand. What do you understand? Fucking and killing, that's what you understand. And soccer. And shares in the bus cooperative. You're a wild animal, not a human being. A wild, stupid, animal.”
― Amos Oz, Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories

“All worlds are whores, forever betraying you and slipping away into the darkness while your soul years for them.”
― Amos Oz, Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories

“What does the pale ring around the moon portend? Usually it heralds a khamsin. Tomorrow, no doubt, the heat will return. It is May, and June will follow. A wind drifts among the cypresses in the night, trying to comfort them between one heat wave and the next. It is the way of the wind to come and to go and to come again. There is nothing new.”
― Amos Oz, Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories