When the Angels Left the Old Country Quotes

“Its heart was heavier with the weight of the young worker’s words. But should a heart not be heavy, in a world full of injustice?”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“To hell with morning services!” said Little Ash, because this was what the angel should expect from him. “I have been a prisoner—why should my first morning of freedom be spent in services!”

“Because,” said Uriel, “that way you will remember who it was that saved you.”

Practically speaking, Uriel was the one who’d saved him.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“You are learning new things,” said the rebbe. “That’s what a journey is for. Hush, now. It’s all right.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Perhaps being a Light of God is difficult when you’re in a dank box on the ocean.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“doing business was a terrible, demonic way to describe the feeling of being needed. It wasn’t doing business. It was being a mitzvah.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Finally, he said, “That’s my Rose. Blessed be the God who gives men daughters.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“Little Ash truly believed that he was the same sort of creature as boys… The angel, however, merely found it convenient to wear a shape in which one could easily study the holy books. Inside itself, it felt closer in kinship to the books themselves, or to the sorts of things an angel might be tasked to look after, like sunlight and rain.”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country

“He knew from experience that it was possible to appear one way and feel quite another, and had developed a sense for when a person was wearing not only their clothes but also their body as an ill-fitting garment.”
(Part 1, Chapter 2, Page 16)”
― Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country