Jerusalem Poker Quotes

“And you’ll like him, the cobbler, you’ll all like him. He has amusing stories to tell and he’s much better on dates than I am, and also he goes back much further, having already been a man when I was still a boy. I know we will. Certainly we will. Haj Harun smiled distantly. Well I think I’ll come down now. I think it’s time we began our rounds. Truly, yes do that. According to the once portable sundial in the front room, it’s almost o’clock.”
― Edward Whittemore, Jerusalem Poker

“Yes. Despite the ultimate mystery of the universe there’s still one small truth we can live by. Choice. Never merely to take what we are given or inherit, but to choose. It may not seem like much but it’s the difference between meanings and memories that disappear in the sand, and something that doesn’t. Choice is the arrow. For then, at least, we play a part in making ourselves.”
― Edward Whittemore, Jerusalem Poker