“When Rachel asks him about days before his life as a Wolff, he will scowl and fidget and so she learns to wait for his recollections and, because it is so difficult for him, she will listen without speaking, collecting the pieces of his past painstakingly like a jigsaw maker, or a batsman accumulating runs, in awe of the impossible distance between a sliver of blue and a great sky, between three runs and a century, between a shard of memory and memory itself.” BeautifulMemoriesMemoryBe My WolffEmma RichlerRepressed MemoriesFigurative LanguageRecollectionsPainstaking Book:Be My Wolff Source: Be My Wolff
“Nicky knew so many beautiful things.” BeautifulKnowledgeBe My WolffEmma Richler Book:Be My Wolff Source: Be My Wolff
“Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a man. Poetic.” BeautifulHairDescriptionPoeticFairy TaleBe My WolffEmma RichlerPretty Boy Book:Be My Wolff Source: Be My Wolff