Etgar Keret Quotes

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

Etgar Keret

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• Grief
• Doors
• Rooms
• Block
• Mazes
• Dense

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• He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Wall
  • Grief
  • Doors