The Wolf Hunt Quotes

“And like you always say, the fact that someone is born a human being doesn’t mean he’ll act like one.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“Remember how you used to daydream that your doctoral adviser would die in an accident?”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“I took my Ralph Lauren dress out of the closet. I’d bought it after I saw Jane wearing a similar one at a company party, but Jane was twenty-nine and I was forty-four, and the dress knew it.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“After what happened in the synagogue, we can’t allow ourselves to be complacent.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“That’s how it was—hip-hop on the way to school, Beatles on the way back, and in between, silence. He was in school, I was at home, Mikhael was at work. Three rivers that did not touch until the evening, when we joined into a single sea for a dinner that was sometimes noisy and sometimes quiet but always, always took place in total oblivion.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“My wife always said that being a mother or a father means always being anxious. You know, I once thought that the greatest mystery in our lives was our parents. Today, I think that maybe the greatest mystery in people's lives is their children.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“I didn’t like Mikhael’s way of engineering people’s behavior. His system of incentives seemed like something you’d do with sea lions, not people. But Mikhael insisted, saying that the entire American economy worked that way so there was no reason it wouldn’t work with our reclusive son.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“At any moment, a familiar, well-lit street might turn into a fiery jungle. I hadn’t felt that way since we’d moved to America. Seventeen years in the U.S. and I’d never wanted to know where the emergency exit was in the mall and I didn’t wonder which of the bus passengers might explode. Now I surveyed the faces of the diners in the restaurant. The guy with the peaked cap left, but I couldn’t calm down. I looked around, tensing at every movement. Wondering where the wolf was hiding.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“How, whenever we went to the mall, my mother pointed out where the emergency exit was and said, “You run there if something happens.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“after we moved to America, I sometimes dreamed that we still lived in our old apartment in Tel Aviv. I loved Israel, I loved it the way a woman loves her abusive husband but understands that she has to get away from him in order to save her children.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“We wound our way upward on the road, the Sea of Galilee spread out beneath us. It shimmered and dazzled in the sun. I asked Mikhael to drive carefully. Two idiots traveling in the north, as if Israel were the kind of country where you could simply go on a hike without first making sure the path was not in the middle of a battlefield.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“Look at what’s happening here in America: People come to Silicon Valley to get rich. The nation, politics—they put everything aside in order to make money. And the world moves forward because of that. Look at Sundar Pichai. The guy was born in India and became CEO of Google. Capitalism conquered racism. Think about how the world would look if instead of Israeli and Arab, there were simply Amazon engineers, Apple programmers, people who weren’t defined by color or gender, only by their performance rating.” Uri sipped his wine quietly. Then he said, “That scares me. Money is the most dangerous ideology there is. It holds nothing sacred and allows you to do anything”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“If people would forget ideology and focus on their personal welfare, everything would be different.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“because I knew that if I were a peach in the market, I wouldn’t pick myself up. And thinking of myself as a tired peach in the market—no matter how I tried to break it down into power structures and gender theories, the thought remained, simple and sharp: I had turned from a beautiful woman into a woman who looked good for her age.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“Kendrick Lamar”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“You know," I said and looked into Uri's eyes for the first time since I'd begun to speak, "after we moved to America, I sometimes dreamed that we still lived in our old apartment in Tel Aviv. I loved Israel, I loved it the way a woman loves her abusive husband but understands that she has to get away from him in order to save her children”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“I look at the tiny fingers of a newborn baby and try to understand how they could possibly grow into the fingers of a killer. The dead boy is named Jamal Jones. In the newspaper photo, his eyes are as dark as velvet. My boy is named Adam Shuster. His eyes are the color of the sea in Tel Aviv. They say he killed Jamal. But that's not true.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“That’s how I prepared myself for every eventuality, except the most unforeseen one—an attack that would unite us, because even though nothing happened to any one of us individually, something had happened to all of us together.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt

“Na manhã depois [da morte] daquele rapaz, as túlipas no vaso não eram nem mais nem menos vermelhas do que no dia anterior, quando Jamal Jones ainda estava vivo. Isso era, obviamente, tão lógico quanto monstruoso.”
― Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Wolf Hunt: A Novel