Quotes from Dara Horn

Mistakes are a very durable building material," the mortal Daniel was saying. "Most people just throw them away as soon as possible and never realize that you can learn from them. But if you do, they can actually hold you up pretty well.

You can't only think about endings," he said. "There's no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.

In that fraction of an instant between when that person stops singing and when that person decides to rise from the bed and disappear-a tiny rehearsal, though you do not yet know it, of what will eventually happen for good-time holds still, and you can feel, through your closed eyes, how that person, watching your still, small face in the darkness, has suddenly realized that you are the reason his life matters.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

our Jews everywhere that they shouldn't worry: our old God still lives!

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

Why are children so much smarter than adults?

No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life--for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!

It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.

But you and I are the only ones who know we'll never get there, that nothing is ever over. I feel like I'm always falling. I've been falling without landing

two thousand years." "Maybe you've been flying

youth is like a good card, which one can either play or hide under one's vest.

Denn, wie einer von Daniels Lehrern zu sagen pflegte: "Die ZEit an sich wird erst durch Akte wahrer Menschlichkeit erschaffen.

I'm just saying that there's a lot we can't know," he concluded, and looked at her again. "Actually what we can't know is infinite.

What made her angry was art that no one looked at, things that were hidden that needed to be seen.

You don't believe in evil," she said slowly. "For you everything is just a misunderstanding.

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.