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Top 25 Helene Wecker Quotes (2024 Update)

Helene Wecker Quote: “Sometimes men want what they don’t have because they don’t have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn’t theirs.”

1. “Sometimes men want what they don’t have because they don’t have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn’t theirs.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “Without thinking, he’d given the Golem the worst life possible: that of idleness.”

2. “Without thinking, he’d given the Golem the worst life possible: that of idleness.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!”

3. “Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “The more he rode the trolleys and trains of New York, the more they seemed to form a giant, malevolent bellows, inhaling defenseless passengers from platforms and street corners and blowing them out again elsewhere.”

4. “The more he rode the trolleys and trains of New York, the more they seemed to form a giant, malevolent bellows, inhaling defenseless passengers from platforms and street corners and blowing them out again elsewhere.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “This is preposterous,” he said. “If I say yes, I’m buying something I didn’t ask for. And if I refuse, I’m like a man who complains that someone stole the eggs from his henhouse and replaced them with rubies.”

5. “This is preposterous,” he said. “If I say yes, I’m buying something I didn’t ask for. And if I refuse, I’m like a man who complains that someone stole the eggs from his henhouse and replaced them with rubies.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “It’s his duty. A good healer can’t pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.”

6. “It’s his duty. A good healer can’t pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality; Maryam, it seemed, effortlessly reached out from hers and drew others inside.”

7. “Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality; Maryam, it seemed, effortlessly reached out from hers and drew others inside.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “They’d need no reason!” shouted Arbeely. “Why can’t you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!”

8. “They’d need no reason!” shouted Arbeely. “Why can’t you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “You must learn how to act according to what people say and do, not what they wish or fear.”

9. “You must learn how to act according to what people say and do, not what they wish or fear.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “There you are,” the man said. A small plate and a fork were in his hands. Irritated, the Jinni said, “Yes, here I am, enjoying a moment of solitude.”

10. “There you are,” the man said. A small plate and a fork were in his hands. Irritated, the Jinni said, “Yes, here I am, enjoying a moment of solitude.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “She couldn’t understand why some girls seemed to relish drawing their attention. One might as well call out to a wolf, and offer it one’s throat.”

11. “She couldn’t understand why some girls seemed to relish drawing their attention. One might as well call out to a wolf, and offer it one’s throat.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “She existed in both places at once, and neither seemed more real than the other.”

12. “She existed in both places at once, and neither seemed more real than the other.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You’ll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.”

13. “A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You’ll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “What use is logic, when it takes you so far in the wrong direction?”

14. “What use is logic, when it takes you so far in the wrong direction?”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “Even in the driest desert a rainstorm could strike with little warning, and a jinni caught in the rain was in mortal danger. For no matter what shape a jinni might assume, be it human or animal or its own true shape of no shape at all, it was still a living spark of fire, and could easily be extinguished.”

15. “Even in the driest desert a rainstorm could strike with little warning, and a jinni caught in the rain was in mortal danger. For no matter what shape a jinni might assume, be it human or animal or its own true shape of no shape at all, it was still a living spark of fire, and could easily be extinguished.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “But now he saw that truths were as innumerable as falsehoods – that for sheer teeming chaos, the world of man could only be matched by the world of the divine. And as he traveled backward the Almighty shrank smaller and smaller, until He was merely another desert deity, and His commandments seemed no more than the fearful demands of a jealous lover.”

16. “But now he saw that truths were as innumerable as falsehoods – that for sheer teeming chaos, the world of man could only be matched by the world of the divine. And as he traveled backward the Almighty shrank smaller and smaller, until He was merely another desert deity, and His commandments seemed no more than the fearful demands of a jealous lover.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “What did people do when the ones they needed died? She lay curled on her bed, feeling as though part of her chest had been roughly scooped out, left raw and exposed.”

17. “What did people do when the ones they needed died? She lay curled on her bed, feeling as though part of her chest had been roughly scooped out, left raw and exposed.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “I am no saint, and he is no monster for me to slay.”

18. “I am no saint, and he is no monster for me to slay.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.”

19. “I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “So perhaps this God of the humans is just a jinni like myself, stuck in the heavens, forced to answer wishes. Or maybe he freed himself long ago, only no one told them.”

20. “So perhaps this God of the humans is just a jinni like myself, stuck in the heavens, forced to answer wishes. Or maybe he freed himself long ago, only no one told them.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “But love founded only on loneliness and desire will die out before long. A shared history, tradition, and values will link two people more thoroughly than any physical act.”

21. “But love founded only on loneliness and desire will die out before long. A shared history, tradition, and values will link two people more thoroughly than any physical act.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.”

22. “Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “Someone whispered that she was a widow, and instantly her quiet manner was transmuted to an air of sad, romantic mystery.”

23. “Someone whispered that she was a widow, and instantly her quiet manner was transmuted to an air of sad, romantic mystery.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “He’d never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they’d like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves.”

24. “He’d never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they’d like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “If I didn’t sleep,” Arbeely mused, “I think I’d miss the dreams.”

25. “If I didn’t sleep,” Arbeely mused, “I think I’d miss the dreams.”

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Helene Wecker Quote: “Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn’t know otherwise, I would’ve thought that the whole world was ocean.”

26. “Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn’t know otherwise, I would’ve thought that the whole world was ocean.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “But sometimes at the bakery where I work, I’ll give someone a loaf of bread-and it answers a need. For a moment, that person is my master. And in that moment, I’m content. If I were as independent as you wish you were, I’d feel I had no purpose at all.”

27. “But sometimes at the bakery where I work, I’ll give someone a loaf of bread-and it answers a need. For a moment, that person is my master. And in that moment, I’m content. If I were as independent as you wish you were, I’d feel I had no purpose at all.”

— Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker Quote: “And perhaps the humans did create their God. But does that make him less real? Take this arch. They created it. Now it exists.”

28. “And perhaps the humans did create their God. But does that make him less real? Take this arch. They created it. Now it exists.”

— Helene Wecker

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