Paper is White Quotes

“I took a deep breath. The words to a Hebrew song popped into my mind: "Kol ha'olam kulo/Gesher tsar me'od." The whole world is a very narrow bridge.... And the main thing is, not to be afraid.”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

“Our throats closed over our grief; open them, and what shrill, animal keening would have issued forth, what primitive howl of pain?”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

“I'm a Jew of the late 20th century, Charlie. That history is still my burden.
As is this. Take it as a hedge against that other hoped-for day when the world has changed so much that the idea of our inequality becomes otherwise unbelievable, when acceptance comes to look, dangerously, wondrously, a lot like invisibility.”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

“I reminded myself: I didn't get to protest. I was the one who'd left.”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

“She didn't get it. Just like I didn't get it about her. Just like she hadn't gotten it about me. How many opportunities for happiness, I wondered, had disappeared in these misperceptions, how many histories vanished, unwritten?”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White

“Liz had always had a hold on me. She was my first love; the genie becomes a slave to the person who lets her out of the bottle. But it was more than primacy; our love had been a dangerous secret. That was powerful, too.”
― Hilary Zaid, Paper is White