# Quote — Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

> I would wish that I was the one leaving because that would be better than being left behind

- Author: [Ayelet Tsabari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari.md)
- Book: [The Art of Leaving](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayelet_Tsabari#The_Art_of_Leaving_(2019_memoir)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/i-would-wish

## More from this book

> I know about death…Our country is haunted by its dead, weighed down by loss and remembrance.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/i-know-about.md)

> The sky cracked open like an eggshell

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/the-sky-cracked.md)

> Home is collecting stories, writing them down, and retelling them. Home is writing, and it grounds, sustains, and nourishes me. Home is the page. The one place I always, always come back to.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/home-is-collecting.md)