Half Life Quotes

“You cannot let circumstances or misfortune or age stop you. You must make a choice to keep going. You always have a choice,” I told them.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“To me music was babka and science was kielbasa. You could live without sweets, but you could not live without sustenance.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“The thing you must learn about men is that they might try and put up a fight but then they will always, always move out of your way. There is nothing that frightens them more than an intelligent woman.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“It is strange how life has a way of being terrible and wonderful all at once.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“Grief fades and becomes lightness again.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“this brilliant mind, and more resources here in Paris than we ever dreamed as girls. You cannot waste that.” She grabs my shoulders and holds on to them. “You cannot waste that.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“bent, torn. That life was delicate and fleeting, that we were all just one wrong step away from death, at any moment. And here we both were, standing together in the pouring rain, alive and breathing.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“My younger nephew, Jakub, would be fine, but he would grow up to be a man, and it wouldn’t matter as much for him where: Poland or Paris. A man could be a man anywhere.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life

“All you can do now,” the doctor said, “is stay in this bed and rest until the baby comes. And pray to our Lord that He forgives you. That He lets you have this baby.”
― Jillian Cantor, Half Life