The Hollow Tree Quotes

“When one is young, Marion, love is all passion, but the passion doesn't last. Lasting love comes after the storm, when the blood in your veins is cooling and the body can dispense with intimacy, and entrusts the soul with this great treasure we call togetherness.”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree

“A world of pure reason, he argued with himself, a world devoid of imaginative sentiment, must be a heartless, monotonous, loveless place. No, this was not the world he dreamt of.”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree

“The trees out there are like people, she thought: they might be clad in scintillating brilliance, yet underneath they are miserable, impoverished, frozen. What a dazzle of falsehood life can be.”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree

“Human relationships were a chain of an incalculable number of factors. One should apply patience, not passion, to solve what often seemed unsolvable.”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree

“Heine believed that in dark times people's best guide is religion, since the blind understand darkness much better than those with sight. But it would be rather foolish to engage in a blind guide in broad daylight, wouldn't it?”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree

“Well, not everybody who is pretty is necessarily beautiful. For the two to come together in a person is a rarity.”
― Jacob G. Rosenberg, The Hollow Tree