Leah Quotes

“Excuse me. I am a sacred vessel, alright? All you’ve got in your stomach is Taco Bell.”

“Her English, like my German, was nearly all holes. Yet invariably I spoke her language and she mine, although any other arrangement at all might have made for a less perforated means of communication.”

“We just never said anything to each other. Over a period of four months, we must have talked for thirty or thirty-five evenings without saying a word.”

“She had immense eyes that always seemed in danger of capsizing in their own innocence.”

“When she sat down, she did the only sensible thing with her beautiful hands there was to be done: she placed them on her lap and left them there. In brief, she was probably the first appreciable thing of beauty I had seen that struck me as wholly legitimate.”

“There was something fantastic and extremely heady about seeing her standing in the pedestrian lobby of the Schwedenkino, and I readily gave up my place in the box-office queue to go to speak to her. But as I charged across the lobby toward her over a number of innocent feet, I saw that she was neither alone nor with a girl friend or someone old enough to be her father.”

“I found out soon after we met that Leah’s father had promised her in marriage to some young Pole. ”

“I was always half-eaten away by the respect and happiness when I opened the door for Leah.”

“When I looked at Leah again, her beauty seemed too great for the size of the room. The only way to make room for it was to speak of it.”

“The way the profile of her face and body refracted in the soupy twilight made me feel a little drunk. When a few seconds had throbbed by, I said hello to her.”