More Than I Love My Life Quotes

“The grief was always there, the foundational color of her eyes.”
― David Grossman, More Than I Love My Life

“What makes two people a couple? Longing? Belonging? Suspending a fraction of the pupil during a seemingly meaningless look? All of the above. And most important-feeling at home. Something like homeland.
(p. 81)

"Already when I was eighteen, Milosz used to send me the most loveliest letters, you couldn't believe it, Nina, that such a young person wrote them. But I also saw in him something that scared me.
Sort of sadness in his soul." Vera leans in. "Because he felt despair, yes, and he did not at all believe in people. And that is a strange thing, because he was a Communist and an idealist, and most of all a humanist, but only I knew the truth, that already at young age he stopped believing in kindness of human beings."
(p. 138)

"Do you know when childhood ends?" my father once asked me after one of my rants about Nina. "Do you know when people really start to mature? When they can accept that their parents have a right to their own psychology."
(p. 143)”
― David Grossman, More Than I Love My Life

“If, say, she suspects someone in the family or the kibbutz of adopting a right-wing position or if they dare to say a kind word about the settlers or, God forbid, begin to find just a little bit of religion—then she’ll unleash an ungodly terror, fire and brimstone.”
― David Grossman, More Than I Love My Life

“Do you know when childhood ends?” my father once asked me after one of my rants about Nina. “Do you know when people really start to mature? When they can accept that their parents have a right to their own psychology.”
― David Grossman, More Than I Love My Life