Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

- Julie Orringer

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

- Julie Orringer

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

- Julie Orringer

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself …

- Julie Orringer

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

- Julie Orringer

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

- Julie Orringer

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

- Julie Orringer

You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revela…

- Julie Orringer

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

- Julie Orringer