The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Quotes

“There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“People who for years had not looked for things in booked found new appetites for knowledge when they spoke to him. To someone who came in asking for the latest novel he might sell not only the novel but a biological treatise on the life of ants, an ecological study of ancient man, a philosophical work, and a history of small sailing-craft.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

“Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.”
― Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz