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From now on there will always be a great self-consciousness between us, as between people who have gone too far.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Midway in life, as at its outset, you do not trust your body not to fail or disappoint you.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Together with her, we feel how stuffy the car is, how the world is boxing her in.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Shmaryahu's blue eyes seem frozen to him, focused on some other world.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Two acquaintances meeting in the street would warm one another's hands with a shy smile.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Reality seems to have broken up into little particles that she can't fit together again.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
We would lie numb, waiting for the night's Operation Cauldron to end, the leaden silence to return, the hollow grief.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
The smell of monstrous pity remained in the empty room.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Perhaps he did not know about that land at all, though it was so near, right beyond the wall, only a password between the twilight and it. Most people do not know.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Past Latrun, between the low hills and the mountains,Ada, without warning, finds herself driving into fear. (first line)
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
They were born without, and I was quibbling over a housecoat.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Ido's mother is the only person with whom Ada can really laugh out loud, the way you can laugh with someone who has known you since childhood.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
She feels sad that the light has gone; she thinks of darkness as one of those bad times that only being old enough can get you through, with a measure of resignation.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
Ido chatters gaily as a sparrow.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
you could always tell a man's calling by his dress.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
I held on to the parapet and breathed hard. A fierce desire had come and gone and left me reeling.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)
A profound weariness was reflected in his eyes, a sorrow intermittently replenished; he was like a boxer's old punching bag, still suffering blow after blow, still returning to the hand that struck it.
Twilight and Other Stories (1992)