“Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding.” “Of course you don’t, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“My family had been in a refugee camp for a year and I was thirty-one years old when the government of Israel arranged through secret channels to fly all the Jews of Yemen to Israel. It was unofficially called Operation Magic Carpet, and officially called Operation On Wings of Eagles. When our people refused to enter the airplanes out of fear—for especially our brethren from the North had no experience with modernity—our rabbis reminded them of divine passages. “This is the fulfillment of ancient prophecy,” they said. “The eagles that fly us to the Promised Land may be made of metal, but their wings are buoyed aloft by the breath of God.” Between June 1949 and September 1950 almost fifty thousand Yemenite Jews boarded transport planes and made some 380 flights from Aden to Israel in this secret operation.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
“From the late 1940s through the early ’60s, the Arab world had disgorged its Jews. Just as it had rescued us Yemenites, Israel rescued whole communities, flying myriad secret and perilous missions into the heart of Arabia.”
― Nomi Eve, quote from Henna House
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“The Law has become a person. When we encounter Jesus, we feed on the living God himself, so to speak; we truly eat “bread from heaven.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, quote from Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
“She stepped away and considered the couch. “First we have to get this house in order. Would you please move the couch again?” I stared at the couch. I had moved it maybe eight hundred times in the last two days. “Which wall?” She chewed at her thumb, thinking. “Over there.” “That’s where it was two moves ago.” It was a big couch. It probably weighed three thousand pounds. “Yes, but that was when the entertainment center was by the fireplace. Now that we’ve put the entertainment center by the entry, the look will be completely different.” “We?” “Yes. We.” I bent into the couch and dragged it to the opposite wall. Four thousand pounds. I was squaring the couch when the phone rang. Lucy spoke for a minute, then held out the phone. “Joe.” Joe Pike and I are partners in the detective agency that bears my name. He could have his name on it if he wanted, but he doesn’t. He’s like that. I took the phone. “Hernias R Us.” Lucy rolled her eyes and turned away, already contemplating new sofa arrangements.”
― Robert Crais, quote from L.A. Requiem
“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”
― Thomas Merton, quote from New Seeds of Contemplation
“ي نهاية التاريخ ليس ثمة منافسون أيديولوجيون للديموقراطية الليبيرالية، و قد رفض الناس في الماضي هذه الديموقراطية الليبيرالية لاعتقادهم أن الملكية و الارستوقراطية و الثيوقراطية أو الحكومة الدينية و الشمولية الشيوعية و سائر الأيديولوجيات التي اتفق أن آمنوا بها أفضل منها. أما الآن فيبدو أن ثمة اتفاقاً عاماً –إلا في العالم الإسلامي- على قبول مزاعم الديموقراطية الليبيرالية بأنها أكثر صور الحكم عقلانية، و هي صورة الدولة التي تحقق إلى أقصى حد ممكن إشباع كل من الرغبة العقلانية و الإعتراف العقلاني. فإن كان ذلك كذلك، فلماذا لم تصبح كافة الدول خارج العالم الإسلامي ديموقراطية؟ لماذا لا يزال الانتقال إلى الديموقراطية صعباُ بالنسبة لدول عديدة قبلت شعوبها و قياداتها المبادئ الديموقراطية نظرياً؟ لماذا نشعر بالشك حيال أنظمة معينة في مختلف أنحاء العالم تدعى الآن أنها ديموقراطية و لا نحسبها ستظل دوماً هكذا، في حين نجد دولاً أخرى لا نكاد نتخيلها إلا ديموقراطيات مستقرة؟ و ما سر إيماننا بأن التيار الراهن المتجه صوب الليبيرالية قد ينحسر و يتراجع رغم أنه يبشر بالإنتصار في المدى البعيد ؟”
― Francis Fukuyama, quote from The End of History and the Last Man
“The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring.”
― Paul Fleischman, quote from Seedfolks
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