The Slaughterman’s Daughter Quotes

“Some people can never be satisfied. They have an image in their heads of how things should be, and if reality does not fit the image in their head, they never suspect that there might be something wrong with the image, but blame reality instead.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“Their conversation may be described as a monologue for two people, or perhaps a one-way dialogue.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“There is nothing that Russia prides herself on more than her size, and there is nothing that Russia suffers from more than her size.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“there comes a time when explanations run dry and contradictions no longer matter and the conversation is over.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“But Pazhari knows all too well that there are two types of people: those who sanctify the law, and those who follow their own conscience. The former will always win any argument, and the latter will always do the right thing.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“Confront a conman with his lies and he will always feel guilty in your presence and loathe you for ever.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“people develop a moral sense through failure, flaw, and sin.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“The more one invokes the name of God, the more one is likely to do it in the name of licentious ends.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“men do not join the army because of ideals: men enlist, and ideals justify their enlistment after the fact.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“Kvatsh, kvatsh mit zozze, nonsense with gravy on top.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“The manners of the Jew bespeak self-deprecation and futility.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“Man and wife learn to like one another out of a sense of duty and shared destiny. They will develop feelings for one another by facing the burden of everyday life and the pressures of their commitment together. Love should rest on solid foun-dations, not on a whim.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“An idle woman without a home to run or a family to care for sinks to the bottomless depths of the soul and drowns in an ocean of discontent.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“When the wife is happy, Resnick knows, the household is happy; whereas the husband could be either happy or sad and no one would care.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“If there is one thing that amazes him about the Jews, it is the ease with which they capitulate when threatened.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“The tzaddik keeps the commandments at home, gives charity in secret, and does not care whether or not he impresses the other members of the congregation.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter

“If you do not know that words can be as sharp as a knife, and not just figuratively, a real knife, then you do not know what words are. And if you no longer want to reach out to touch someone’s hand heedless of the outcome, and you do not realise that your trembling body and broken heart prefer death to loneliness, then you may be dead already.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman’s Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann at the Hands of Her Sister Fanny

“Do you know the difference between a captain and a colonel?” Adamsky asks, and spits out of the side of his mouth. “A captain doesn’t cry like a baby.”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman’s Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann at the Hands of Her Sister Fanny

“They get mixed up in politics like people in any other nation. They take a stand as if they were politicians all of a sudden: some with the proletariat and some with the intellectuals and”
― Yaniv Iczkovits, The Slaughterman's Daughter