Chloe Benjamin Books & Quotes

“Is there such a thing as too much pleasure? When Simon imagines the bathhouses, he thinks of a carnival of gluttony, an underworld so endless it seems possible to stay there forever. What he’s said to Robert isn’t a lie – he is afraid he wouldn’t be able to take it – but he’s also afraid he would, that his greed would have no edges and no end.”

Pleasure

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“...on the topics of death and immortality, Judaism has little to say. While other religions are concerned with dying, Jews are most concerned with living. The Torah focuses on olam ha-ze: "this world.”

Death Loss Dying Living Judaism

Author:Chloe Benjamin

“I'm sure he didn't always feel fearless. But he acted with fearlessness. That's something he taught me.”

Life Life Lessons Fear Bravery Fearless

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“She knows that stories have the power to change things: the past and the future, even the present.”

Change Power Power Of Words Powerful Story

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“She'll tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying. 'What if I change?' she asked the fortune teller, all those years ago, sure that knowledge could save her from bad luck and tragedy. 'Most people don't,' the woman said.”

Worry Fate Anxiety Mental Illness Worries

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“By the time she was six, even her own parents were dead. God must have seemed less likely than chance, goodness less likely than evil--so Gertie knocked on wood and crossed fingers, tossed coins into fountains and rice over shoulders. When she prayed, she bargained.”

God Religion Belief Fate Superstition Superstitious

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Perhaps home, like the moon will follow wherever she goes.”

Home Feelgood

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“She's always thought of home as a physical destination but perhaps... home, like the moon will follow wherever she goes.”

Home

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Will I ever find someone I love as much as you?' 'Please. You'll find someone you love much more.”

Love Touching Siblings

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Will I ever find someone I love as much as you?' 'Please. You'll find someone you love much more.' -pg.34”

Love Touching Siblings

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Varya takes the handkerchief and wipes her face, and when she emerges she thinks of what Luke said--'that I'll kill them accidentally'--and laughs until he joins in and she begins to cry again, because she understands exactly what he means.”

Loss Worry Anxiety Mental Health Mental Illness Worries

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“During the breaking of the glass, he imagined his life until now shattering, too: its ignorance and anguish, its great and petty losses.”

Loss Moving On Wedding Judaism

Author:Chloe Benjamin

“What is growing a baby if not making a flower appear from thin air, turning one scarf into two?”

Love Baby Mothers

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“If nothing else, Judaism had taught her to keep running, no matter who tried to hold her hostage. It had taught her to create her own opportunities, to turn rock into water and water to blood. It had taught her that such things were possible.”

Possibility Resilience Judiasm

Author:Chloe Benjamin

“You're out of your comfort zone, kid- that's a fact. What's one more step?”

Bravery Comfort Zone

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Give me one good reason why you shouldn't start your life.”

Life Bravery Comfort Zone

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“Vaginas have never appealed to him: their cabbage-like folds, their long, hidden corridor. He craves the long thrust of the cock, its heady insistence, and the challenge of a body like his.”

Cock Vaginas

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.”

Horses Zebras Hoof Beats

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“You’re just like the rest of them,’ he says, ‘all the twinks and the art fags and the motherfucking bears. You guys, you go on about your rights and your freedoms, you cheer at all the parades, but all you really want’s the right to fuck some leatherman in a den on Folsom or spew your shit all over a bathhouse. You want the right to be as careless as any other white guy – any straight one. But you’re not any other white guy. And that’s why this place is so dangerous: because it lets you forget that.”

Bears Twinks Art Fags

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

“We know something about reality, my father and I. And I bet you know it, too. Is it that reality is too much? Too painful, too limited, too restrictive of joy or opportunity? No,' she says. 'I think it's that reality is not enough.”

Reality Magic

Book:The Immortalists

Source: The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin Books

The Immortalists

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