# Quote — Chaim Potok, The Chosen

> I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.

- Author: [Chaim Potok](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok.md)
- Book: [The Chosen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok#The_Chosen_(1967)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen/i-dont-understand

## More from this book

> Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them— "ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

p. 110 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen/reuven-as-you.md)

> It was senseless, as— I held my breath, feeling myself shiver with fear— as Billy's blindness was senseless.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen/it-was-senseless.md)

> [Danny] laughed once and said, 'That man is such an ignoramus, Father.' I was angry. 'Look into his soul,' I said. 'Stand inside his soul and see the world through his eyes. You will know the pain he feels because of his ignorance, and you will not laugh.' He was bewildered and hurt. The nightmares he began to have. . . . But he learned to find answers for himself. He suffered and learned to listen to the suffering of others. In the silence between us, he began to hear the world crying."

p. 286 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chaim-potok/the-chosen/danny-laughed-once.md)