Ellis Island And Other Stories Quotes

“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”
― Mark Helprin, Ellis Island And Other Stories: Prize-Winning Short Stories and Novella – Literary Masterpiece

“He did not think of the strength it had taken to love when not loved”
― Mark Helprin, Ellis Island: And Other Stories

“Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and delicate. It is feminine as well as masculine. It is often gentle, and sometimes it can even make a fool of itself—but when it does it calls down God (who protects weak creatures), and suddenly its foolishness becomes a blazing, piercing light.”
― Mark Helprin, Ellis Island And Other Stories: Prize-Winning Short Stories and Novella – Literary Masterpiece