The Art of Leaving Quotes

“Home is collecting stories, writing them down, and retelling them. Home is writing, and it grounds, sustains, and nourishes me. Home is the page. The one place I always, always come back to.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Losing him was the end and beginning of everything, the cosmic explosion of my little universe.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Home became the liminal space in between-between identities, between cultures, between languages- and I was content claiming that space as my own, pleased to be different.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“I wonder how it feels to know something with such certainty, to believe in it with all you have, even when you fear it may not last.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Has it been another day? We stop by a deserted beach to watch the sun, a fat tangerine rolling into the Arabian Sea, leaving streaks of juice over the sky.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Though I thought myself better than them, smarter, more versed in the way of the world, I secretly admired the confidence in which they carried themselves, as though they knew something I didn't, something about boys, or their bodies, or sex, or how to be happy. They were only a couple of years older than me, but they appeared to be women already, while I was still a girl.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“I sat on the knees of others. Their stomach was my spine, their arms—my walls. I had a home made of people. —MAYA TEVET DAYAN, “Home”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Leaving, I discovered, did not cure my displacement, but rather reinforced it.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Home, essentially, was the act of leaving- not a physical place, but the pattern of walking away from it.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“But it was a heartbreaking comparison, as when old age evokes the helplessness of infanthood.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“My crush on him deflates, as though pricked by a pin.”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

“Cleaning gives me peace of mind; a full fridge makes me feel rich; when I’m in the kitchen, I don’t like interruption; I cook by intuition, rarely following a recipe”
― Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving