The Golem and the Jinni Quotes

She heard a man nearby, breathing. She knew his name and who he was. He was her master, her entire purpose; she was his golem, bound to his will. (1.68)

"I don't have a name." (1.74)

[The Jinni] was a creature of the desert, and never in his life had he come so close to this much water. (2.41)

[Arbeely] had many acquaintances, but few close friends. (2.81)

Without thinking, [The Rabbi had] given the Golem the worst life possible: that of idleness. (4.7)

If these were lies, then why had the Rabbi asked her to read them? (4.24)

Stories abounded about Schaalman, all slightly different: that […] he'd been possessed by a dybbuk and given supernatural powers; and even that he was over a hundred years old and slept with demo...

Her hair was plastered to her neck. More astonishing was the thick, brackish mud that covered her skirt and shoes. (1.153)

"Do you know what a golem is? […] It's a beast of burden. A lumbering, unthinking slave." (1.13, 1.15)

"These were the world's first people. Everything they did, every action and decision, was entirely new, without precedent." (4.32)