“Swords can only harm those standing right in front of them, while stories determine who will live and who will die in future generations.”

“Unlike their front-line soldier counterparts, these secret soldiers are armed with nothing but a foreign passport, a fake identity, extensive training, and inexplicable courage.”

“Tel Aviv grinned like a little girl with tooth decay while she puffed on a pipe held in the corner of her mouth.”

“What did Fishl say when he saw the fish? He said, ‘The Leviathan knows that Fishl Karp loves large fish and sent him what he loves.'”

“… The State is a metaphysical concept rendered into something physical which feigns meta-physicality.”

“Of all the questions / to ask: Did you pack it yourself? / Yes, by myself. / It was hard, I said, / but it is harder to fear that it will never come.”

“… people with / money, so much money / that they retire to the mountains of Spain / and sunbathe in fancy villas / at the age of thirty-eight.”

“I would ask your indulgence in reviving for a few moments the former, innocent image of Aslan, the image of a hollow-cheeked youth, whose days were as roses…”

“The voices of snipers can’t be heard over the radio waves of the IDF Station. / But they chose songs for us before they left. What songs do snipers like?”

“Alexandrian Summer” is a nostalgic, farewell portrait of a world that was fast expiring but still refused to see that history had written it off.