Morningside Heights Quotes

“Tell me all the things I'm going to forget."
"With every person it's different."
"Will I forget to love you?"
"I hope not."
"Don't let me forget to love you.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“once told him”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“They said if you put a chimp in front of a typewriter, eventually he’d type Hamlet. But if you asked a chimp who the late Senator Thomas from Missouri was, he would never, in a billion years, say Eagleton.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“she was engaged with the world. “It’s been thirty”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“disease had made his father gentler?”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“plangent”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“Probably. Parents are engineered to be proud.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“Pru knew these verses, too. He who learns as a child, what is that like? It’s like ink written on new paper. And he who learns as an old person, what is that like? It’s like ink written on erased paper. She’d studied Pirkei Avot with her father, a chapter a week on Shabbat afternoons. The rabbi stepped back into the sanctuary.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“flagrante”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“Her grandmother wasn’t alone in thinking that if you were a vegetarian you had to like tofu, as if it were an obligation you’d incurred.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“He who learns as a child, what is that like? It’s like ink written on new paper. And he who learns as an old person, what is that like? It’s like ink written on erased paper.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights